Baseball Trophies

Baseball is the passion of American sports loversextraction shone, followed by Native Americans in
and now has fans worldwide. In the U.S. it is thethe 1900s. Italians and Poles rose in the 1920s and
oldest and most popular team sport. The hype1930s. Blacks joined in from the 1940s and
that surrounds it covers the rules, the players,Hispanics surfaced in the 1990s. In the last two
the stadiums, and the history.decades, player-management strikes caused a
Baseball is a team sport in which the ball is thrownwaning of interest in baseball, but interest was
by a defensive player, called the pitcher, to anrevived after individual shows of excellence on
offensive player called a batter, who stands at athe field.Professional baseball leagues were formed
place called home base and attempts to hit thein countries other than U.S., like the Netherlands,
ball with his bat. Scoring is attained by the batterJapan, Australia, Venezuela, Italy, Korea, Taiwan
running and touching four points (bases) on theand China, and most European countries.
field without being tagged by a player with aCompetition between national teams has been
ball.Baseball is played between teams of ninemonitored by the International Baseball Federation,
players, usually under the supervision of anformed in 1938, which had 112 countries as
umpire. With four bases, the baseball field forms amembers in 1994.Professional leagues are
square called the Diamond. The game is played inorganized at different levels and by different rules.
nine innings, in which each team gets one turn toThe Youth League consists of Little League, Dizzy
bat and to score runs while the other pitches andDean Baseball, American Legion Baseball, and
defends. The team with the most runs at the endUSSSA baseball has the Babe Ruth League. In the
of the game wins.American baseball is uniqueU.S., high school trophies are handled by the
because of many factors. Firstly, it does not haveNational Federation of State High School
a fixed time interval. A team cannot win withoutAssociations. At the college level there are the
getting the last batter out, and rallies are notNCCA and College World Series.In international
constrained by time. Though a team sport, it putscompetition, the coveted baseball trophies are the
individual players under great pressure. The gameWorld Baseball Classic and World Cup, coordinated
requires skill and athleticism, as well as strategyby the International Baseball Federation. There is
and planning.Baseball is believed to have evolvedalso the Olympic trophy for baseball, in some
from the games of cricket, rounders and townOlympic games. There is semi-professional baseball
ball. The rules of baseball are said to have evolvedcalled as Independent Baseball.Professional baseball
from 'KnickerBocker Rules' compiled by Alexandertrophies are for following leagues:Major League
Cartwright in 1845. Professional baseball started inBaseball and Minor League Baseball, the
the U.S. in 1865 and the National League wasAll-American Girls Professional Baseball Leagues,
formed soon after, producing great players. AMexican Baseball, Japanese Baseball, Taiwan
world series was played with an American Leagueprofessional baseball, Korean Baseball Organization
in 1903.Baseball continued to grow popular andand Australian Baseball.Trophies made of metal or
became a favorite of all races. In the latecrystal are common, and figures of pitchers and
nineteenth century, players of Irish and Germanbatsmen are popular.