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2. Batting (baseball) - Wikipedia

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   Batting (baseball) In baseball, batting is the act of facing the opposing pitcher and trying to produce offense for one's team. A batter or hitter is a person whose turn it is to face the pitcher. The three main goals of batters are to become a baserunner, to drive runners home or to advance runners along the bases for others to drive home, but ...

3. Joe Tanner (baseball) - Wikipedia

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   Joe Tanner (baseball) Joseph Henry "Joe" Tanner (November 16, 1931 [ 1] – April 1, 2020 [ 1]) was an American professional baseball player, coach, and farm system instructor spanning over 50 years. After a standout season hitting at Jones Junior College, Tanner played one year for the Texas Longhorns baseball team, making it to the 1952 ...

4. Glossary of baseball terms - Wikipedia

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   At-bats (or "times at bat") are used for the calculation of a player's batting average and slugging percentage. Note that a plate appearance is not recorded as an "at-bat" if the batter reaches first base as a result of a base on balls, or hit by pitch, nor if he executes a sacrifice bunt or sacrifice fly.

5. Rocky Nelson - Wikipedia

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   Baseball Hall of Fame. Induction. 1987. Glenn Richard "Rocky" Nelson (November 18, 1924 – October 31, 2006) was an American professional baseball first baseman who played in Major League Baseball for all or parts of nine seasons between 1949 and 1961 for the St. Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago White Sox, Brooklyn Dodgers and ...

6. Variations of baseball - Wikipedia

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   Softball. Softball originated as a variation of baseball, [21] and today is a very popular sport in its own right, [22] with most of the rules remaining the same as baseball. The field is significantly smaller, with the bases only 60 feet (18 m) apart, and the pitcher is required to throw the ball underarm throughout the seven regulation ...

7. Bat-and-ball games - Wikipedia

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   Bat-and-ball games. Young men playing a bat-and-ball game in a 13th-century manuscript of the Galician Cantigas de Santa Maria. Bat-and-ball games, or safe haven games, [1] are field games played by two opposing teams. Action starts when the defending team throws a ball at a dedicated player of the attacking team, who tries to hit it with a bat ...