This article is about baseball, it explains where and when it played for the first time, and some information about it such as: The means of baseball, how can you play that, etc.

The earliest reference to baseball is in a 1744 British publication, A Little Pretty Pocket Book, by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team (the batting team) take turns hitting against the pitcher of the other team (the fielding team), which tries to stop them from scoring runs by getting hitters out in any of several ways. A player on the batting team can stop at any of the bases and later advance via a teammate`s hit or other means. the teams switch between batting and fielding whenever the fielding team records three outs. one turn at bat for each team constitutes an inning; nine innings make up a professional game. The team with the most runs at the end of the game wins.

In the mid-1850s, a baseball craze hit the New York metropolitan area. By 1856, local journals were refering to baseball as the national pastime or national game. A year later, sisteen area clubs formed sport`s first governing body, the national asociation of baseball players. in 1863, the organization disallowed putouts made bt catching a fair ball on the first bounce.