i need alot of info about baseball NOW!!!!!!?

Question

im trying out for diamond dolls at my school, and i have to pass a test on baseball

Answer 1

im not trying to be a smarty but...Baseball is a variation on a very simple game. The game involves someone hitting a thrown object and seeing how far they can run before the object is returned to them. It’s the same basis as cricket with a different development of rules. Here I’ll attempt to explain the rules of baseball based on the logical consequences of attempting to play a game of this variety.So we start with a person throwing a ball. An opponent attempting to strike the ball as far as possible so he can run a pre-determined circuit and return to this starting position before the ball can.

That’s baseball. That’s all there is to it. All other rules either stem from this or are a matter of the taste of the rulemakers. Every at bat is truly the pursuit of an inside the park home run.

So let’s start there. Someone has to throw the ball. The first question is how far back they stand. This must be regulated. The faster the pitcher can throw the harder it will be to strike the ball. So the pitcher must be far enough back so the ballcan’t be pitched at an unhittable speed but close enough that the pitcher has a fair chance of keeping the batter from striking it. That distance for professionals is 60 feet six inches but it varies depending on the skill level of the competitotrs, as it should.

Contrary to popular belief there is no restriction on how the ball is delivered. It doesn’t have to be overhand. That just is usually the most effective method.

The ball should be delivered however without external aid. The batter should have a chance to strike the ball in it’s pure state with nothing but the effort of the pitcher guiding it. Hence the rules outlawing scuffing the ball, and the constant changing of balls in a professional game. For awhile spit was deemed to be a natural substance, not altering the ball and pitchers were allowed to apply spit to a ball before they threw it. Eventually rule makers deemed that this gave the pitcher an unfair advantage and violated the sanctity of the thrown ball, so it was made illegal. At base the pitcher is delivering the ball FOR the batter not AGAINST the batter. All attempts by the pitcher to gain advantage are contrary to the spirit of the purpose, hence so many rules about what the pitcher can do to gain an edge. It’s an attempt by rule to force the pitcher back into a state of server rather than antagonist.

The fielders were supposed to do the defensive work and stop the batter before he could run the circuit. Stop three batters and you get to take your turn at bat.

The batter is the original focus of the game. In early games he used to be able to call for what kind of pitch he liked and could take as amany balls as possible. Originally it can be assumed that every batter was supposed to strike the ball into play. Eventually they realised that batters could use this as a delay tactic, so a limit on the number of swings you could attempt. Three seemed like the right number. So you were allowed to strike at the ball three times. If you missed all three times you had to retire from the batters box and you were considered out of play.

Not every struck ball was playable however. Sometimes the ball would skip off the bat into a crowd of observers, or even directly behind the batter away from the pitcher and the fielders. Rules were put in place therefore to decalre certain territory generally behind the batter as out of play. A foul was called if the batter struck a ball into this territory.

The question arose as to how this should count now that the batter could only have three strikes at the ball. It was determined that since the batter was swinging it would count as one of the three attempts but since the batter partially succeded at striking the ball, just unfortunately not in the field of play, you could not be retired from the box when you struck for the third time and knocked the ball into foul territory.

Then batters took the stratagem of waiting for just the right pitch, again causing lengthy at bats. Pitchers also could take advantage of throwing the ball far from the batter so it was within reach but more difficult to strike. Therefore a rule had to be put in placejudging which balls were hittable and which balls were not. A pitcher should not throw unhittable balls. Allowing for natural mistakes, a limit of four balls was put on the pitcher. If a batter swung, it did not count. The pitcher was supposed to throw hittable balls, so it was quite generous to allow them 4 mistakes. The punishment if the pitcher met this threshold was to assume that the batter would have connected on a hittable ball and entered the circuit but not made it all the way around but also would not be put out. We’ll disucss more once our batter has hit the ball and we must decide what he does after that.

So now a batter could have the advantage of claiming anything he doesn’t swing at is unhittable and always entering the circuit. So another rule had to be put in place that if the pitch was deemed hittable that the batter must swing. If the batter refrained from striking at the ball it will be counted against him anyway as one of his attempts. A judge was put in place to arbitrate what pitches could be struck at and what were one of the four balls the pitcher was allowed to waste.

So if a batter didn’t swing at all, he could technically be ruled to have struck at three balls if he refrained from swinginig at hittable pitches. The rules describe what in the opinion of the rule makers is a hittable ball and what isn’t.

So now we have the principles surrounding the player reciving his pitches and attempting to strike the ball into play. We have ruled on all instances and possibilities if the batter does not strike the ball successfully and what rules will keep the balance of fair play.

sorry its soo long but you said A LOT!!

Answer 2

haha whats a diamond doll?!

but anyway... hmmm how long have you followed the game of baseball??? because honestly... if you know little to nothing about baseball, how are you supposed to pass a test on it if you dont already know the history, how to play, and the statistics? just looking at the wikipedia page, you have your luck cut out for you unless you at least know the basics and a few facts and stats. ive been a baseball nut for as long as i can remember and im still learning new stuff on its history every day. and i agree you cant just learn baseball overnight or just by reading an entire wikipedia page. its a lot of info to retain because its a very specific game with a long history. but... if you are really passionate about what you are trying out for... good luck i guess.

Answer 3

Here are the basics-
2 teams, one home and one away. the home team bats in the bottom of the inning and the away team bats in the top of the inning
9 players per team, 9 positions to play on the field
1st base (1st baseman stands to the right of it), 2nd base (2nd baseman stands in between first and second base), Shortstop (shortstop stands between 2nd and 3rd base), and 3rd base (3rd baseman stands to the left of 3rd base). THat's the infield. THe outfield is like this - the centerfielder stands in the middle of the outfield, the leftfielder stands in the right of the outfield (from a view from home plate), and the right fielder stands in the left of the outfield (from home plate). FInally, in the middle of the infield theres a mound of dirt, the pitcher stands there, his job is to throw the ball to the catcher who squats behind home plate (he catches it).
On the other team, players go up to the plate one at a time and try to hit the ball that the pitcher throws. If he hits the ball into the field, he runs to first base, he can keep running the bases in order (first-second-third-home) until either he is tagged out (a fielder touches him while holding the baseball), the ball is caught on a fly by a fielder, or a fielder steps on the base that he is running towards while holding the baseball (there's more to that but it's not really basics). The fielders jobs are to either catch the ball on a fly, or field the ball off the ground and throw it to a base that the hitter is running towards.
The pitcher throws the ball to the catcher to try to strike out the batter. If the ball goes over home plate on a fly not too high up or not to high down, and the batter doesn't hit it, it's called a strike, if the hitter swings and misses or hits the ball into foul territory, its also a strike. If none of those things happen (the batter doesn't swing and the ball is out of the strike zone, it';s a ball). If the batter gets four balls in an at bat before getting three strikes, he gets to go to first base for free. The batter gets three strikes per at bat, and if he gets 3 strikes, its an out, each team gets 3 outs per inning. After there are three outs in an inning, the teams switch (the batting team becomes the fielding team, and the fielding team becomes the batting teams.) After the teams switch, the new hitting team has three outs to try to score runs. After they get three outs the teams switch again, that is caled an inning (there are six total outs in an inning, three per team.)
You score a run every time one of your hitters is able to round all of the bases and touch home plate without getting out in any of the ways mentioned above, then its a run (also if the hitter hits the ball over the fence in the outfield on a fly it's called a homerun and the hitter can run around the bases for free and score.)
There are nine innings in a game, at the end of the nine innings whoever is winning wins the game, if it's tied then they play extra innings until either the home team scores to take the lead or the away team finishes an inning with the lead.
I know its a lot, but those are the BASICS of baseball.

Answer 4

Well, get a good book on baseball and learn the game. No one on this site has the time or space to give you the details you need. Good luck.

Chow!!

Answer 5

In the low 80s you are going to need total control over hitting your spots. If you haven't been in front of a radar gun since high school then it's likely that you are faster. When you go to a tryout be in shape. Find a catcher and help him with his homework, buy him dinner, or whatever it takes to get him to catch for you for a few weeks before you tryout. Be prepared to run your butt off in college.

Answer 6

There are 4 bases 1st,2nd,3rd,& 4th *aka homebase*
there is a ball and ball (stick to hit the ball) and there are outfielders(peopel standing near bases to catch ball)
the idea of the game is to hit the ball as hard as you can and thenrun to bases hit them with your foot as amny as you can, tryinto get to all 4! the outfielders suposed to catch the ball and get to the bases before you can with the ball! thats pretty much it. Cricket is also baseball in the UK

Answer 7

it takes years to learn baseball history and all the rules it would be next to impossible to start now

Answer 8

Good Luck!

Answer 9

you cant just learn baseball overnight

Answer 10

If you got 4 balls, then walk with pride!