Baseball

By: Cameron Radney

Table of Contents

How baseball is played

Equipment

Babe Ruth

Famous players

How baseball is playedWhen you play baseball there is offense and defense.

On offense, the batter tries to hit the ball with a bat and drive it out of the reach of the people in the field.

By hitting the ball, and in other ways, players advance around the four bases on the field.

How baseball is played

Then you have defense

Defense is when a player of the team in the field called the pitcher, throws a baseball toward a player of the team at bat, called the batter.

The pitchers purpose is to get the batter out.

Equipment

You have baseballs, gloves, bats and many other things.

A baseball is a small, hard round ball.

Equipment

A baseball bat is a long rounded piece of wood.

You also have three kinds of gloves, the catchers mitt, the fielders glove, and the first baseman's mitt.

Babe Ruth

Babe Ruth is the most famous baseball player to ever live.

He hit 714 homers, and 50 in four different seasons.

Famous Players

Jackie Robinson is a legend in the baseball world.

He broke the color barrier in the MLB.

Joe DiMaggio helped lead the Yankees to 9 world championships.

Jackie Robinson

Joe DiMaggio

Work cited

(2007) “Baseball” World Book Encyclopedia 2007.