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Baseball is a Human sport. The modern game of baseball originated on Earth during the mid 19th century. Baseball is played by two teams of nine players.

Contents 1 Early years 1.1 Notable 21st century teams 2 Post-professional years 3 Cestus revival 4 Connections

Early years

Professional baseball was quite popular during the 20th and early 21st centuries, and the American and National Leagues had thirty-two franchises at their peak. (TNG novel: Fortune's Light)

However, society later started becoming frustrated with the slower pace of the game relative to other sports. (TNG episode: "Evolution") In addition, labor disputes and rising ticket prices between 1981 and 2026 contributed to a serious decline in the sport. The number of the sport's fans declined by half between 1999 and 2019. Four teams went bankrupt between 2018 and 2023, while eight others changed ownership multiple times. By 2059, only eight franchises still remained. (TNG novel: Fortune's Light)

Notable 21st century teams

• Fairbanks Icebreakers
• London Kings
• Phoenix Sunsets

Post-professional years

A ten-team interplanetary league was begun in the 22nd century, but lasted only two seasons. (TNG novel: Fortune's Light)

During the 23rd century, the game continued to be played on an amateur level in rural areas of the southern United States of America. Being from that region, Doctor Leonard McCoy was familiar with the game. Captain James T. Kirk was also familiar with the game. (TOS video game: 25th Anniversary)

Starfleet Academy also had baseball teams on the San Francisco campus. In the 2270s, Cadet Saavik was the pitcher of the freshmen team. Her speed earned her the nickname "Photon Torpedo". (TOS novel: The Pandora Principle)

During the 24th century, notable Starfleet officer Jack Crusher was familiar with the game, and taught it to his son Wesley before he died. (TNG episode: "Evolution") Another well-known Starfleet officer, Benjamin Sisko, and his son Jake, also loved baseball, and often used the holodeck to recreate baseball games, either as players or spectators. When Sisko first encountered the Prophets inside the Bajoran Wormhole, he used baseball as an analogy to explain the nature of linear time to them. (DS9 episode: "Emissary")

In 2375, Sisko formed a baseball team, the Niners, to play against Captain Solok and his all Vulcan team, the Logicians. (DS9 episode: "Take Me Out to the Holosuite")

Cestus revival

See main article: Cestus Baseball League.

The sport saw a revival in the 24th century on Cestus III with the formation of the Cestus Baseball League. (DS9 episode: "Family Business"; ST novel: Articles of the Federation)

Connections

• Baseball article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
• Baseball article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

From Muppet Wiki

Baseball is a sport played between two teams of nine players each. The first games were played in the mid 18th century in England, but it was in 1846 in Hoboken, New Jersey that saw the first game with codified rules played. Although Basketball and Football are also popular American sports, baseball is often called America's national past time, and the game has gained in popularity throughout the late 18th and early 19th century. Canada has remained closely linked with the U.S. in the history of baseball, and there are professional leagues and tournaments in the Netherlands, Australia, Japan, Mexico, and Puerto Rico.

Major League Baseball is the highest level of play in North America, operating since 1901. Composed of 30 teams, each team plays in its own unique park. The Chicago Cubs play at Wrigley Field, famous for its ivy covered outfield walls, and the New York Yankees play at Yankee Stadium, of which the original was nicknamed "The House That Ruth Built" after legendary player Babe Ruth. Beginning with the 1992 Olympic Games, baseball became a medal sport, but was dropped after the 2008 games, and efforts to reinstate it have been unsuccessful.

Baseball has had a great impact in America's popular culture. In 1888, Ernest Thayer's poem "Casey at the Bat" became so popular it inspired Vaudeville and other staged performances, audio recordings and film adapations. Little League Baseball oversees more then 7,000 children's baseball leagues, baseball caps have become a fashion item, and baseball cards are continually collected. Baseball movies have become a popular genre at the box office, and even Broadway has produced thematic material based on the game. Abbott and Costello cemented their fame and popularity with their famous "Who's on First" sketch, which TIME magazine named the best comedy routine of the twentieth century.

Contents 1 Characters 2 References 2.1 Sesame Street 2.2 The Muppet Show Characters 2.3 Bear in the Big Blue House 2.4 Muppet Babies 2.5 International Productions 2.6 Other References 3 Baseball Players

Characters

• A Baseball appeared in a Muppet Time sketch with Milton and Do Re Mi Monster. This baseball, along with others, were also interviewed by Louis Kazagger for a Good Morning America segment.

• Ferret Jeeter is a baseball star who went to Hazelnut High School and played baseball with Bear in Bear in the Big Blue House.

• A Baseball sock appears in the laundromat courtesy of Abby Cadabby's magic to join other socks in singing "Five Sock Conga" in episode 4163.

References

Sesame Street

• Bob throws baseball gloves to Gordon, who counts them in episode 235.

• Sherlock Hemlock is a member of the Sesame Street Sluggers, and hits a home-run which broke Ernie's window. (EKA: Episode 0238)

• Episode 0273 features an Anything Muppet sketch about baseball.

• A group of Anything Muppets are going to play baseball, with the teams split between those with letters on their uniforms and those with numbers. (EKA: Episode 0298)

• Tom and a young boy have identical baseball gloves, so Tom writes his name on his glove's label in episode 300.

• Luis sings the Classification Song in Spanish as he regroups baseball gloves and a baseball bat in episode 311.

• Oscar can't make up his mind whether to use his baseball to practice his pitching or to use his pencil to write his uncle a letter. (EKA: Episode 0324)

• Big Bird is mad at Lillian in episode 337 because she keeps saying no to anything he wants to do, including playing baseball.

• Big Bird invites Snuffy to play baseball with Tom and Rafael in episode 348.

• Wally and Ralph put on a baseball cap and get ready to play in episode 514.

• Oscar disagrees about Luis' decisions as an umpire in a baseball game, but he's happy when the team loses in episode 685.

• "Sluggo the Great" (David) puts on his baseball gear, but isn't sure which body parts to put them on in. (EKA: Episode 0811)

• Ernie is a coach for his baseball team in a episode 944 sketch.

• Maria imagines she's a baseball player in episode 1082.

• Big Bird doesn't want to play baseball at Camp Echo Rock during summer camp because he doesn't know how to play. Still, they have him play in the outfield, where he hits a home run in episode 1707.

• In the Sesame Street opera parody "The Heartstrongs", Barnaby (David) comes downstairs to change shoelaces in order to play baseball. (EKA: Episode 2404)

• A Muppet girl approaches a sad Herry and asks him what's wrong. He laments about being left out of the baseball game, and she offers to cheer him up by taking him to the zoo in episode 2620.

• Robin Williams ask Elmo and the kids if they would allow a nonsense talking, horned two-headed stranger to play baseball with them. The Two-Headed Monster shows up to play. (EKA: Episode 2795)

• In an Alphabet Chat sketch, Mr. Chatterly and Mr. Bull have a conversation about sporting goods that begin with B. (EKA: Episode 3123)

• Telly delays a baseball game between Big Big, Baby Bear and Gabi in episode 3688.

• For episode 3781, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg tells a sad Big Bird and Miles that she has found their baseball.

• In a Grover and Mr. Johnson sketch, Mr. Johnson attends a baseball game in hopes of catching a fly ball, only to be foiled by the hot dog selling Grover. (EKA: Episode 3784)

• Gordon wants to take Elmo to a baseball game in episode 4042, but before they go, Elmo needs a fish-sitter to fish-sit Dorothy while they are gone.

• Elmo wants to play with the Two Headed Monster, but they can't decide on whether to play baseball or hockey until Aaron and Nick Carter pass by and then everyone wants to sing in episode 4056.

• The Big Bad Wolf huffs and puffs when he loses a baseball game in episode 4082.

• A cow makes reference to a famous cow baseball team, the Seattle Moo-iners (a pun on the Seattle Mariners) in episode 4083.

• Baby Bear asks Telly to play baseball, and he convinces Baby Bear to let Freddy play baseball with them. The doll's baseball skills prove to be sorely lacking in episode 4121.

• In Episode 4132, Big Bird and Mr. Snuffleupagus want to play baseball with Marco, but he is too young.

• Episode 4142 features a baseball game between Telly and Chris.

• In a Murray Has a Little Lamb segment, Murray's lamb, Ovejita takes him to baseball school. (First: Episode 4167)

• In episode 4174, Kaitlyn barters with Radar to obtain a baseball glove from Big Bird.

• In a Ernie and Bert sketch, Ernie uses an electric fan to blow Bert's book away so he can play baseball with him. (EKA: Episode 3695) In another, Ernie is sad because it's raining and he can't play baseball. Bert encourages him to imagine that he's playing instead. (EKA: Episode 0706)

• Another sketch features Ernie answering the telephone. Bert overhears the conversation, which involves a baseball game, a rainy day, and a gorilla stealing a baloney sandwich. When Bert asks who just called, Ernie says it was a wrong number. (EKA: Episode 0694) This was adapted into the book Ernie's Telephone Call.

• Ernie plays imaginary baseball with the viewers in an episode of ‘’Play with Me Sesame’’.

• Elmo pretends he is a baseball player in "Elmo's World: Hats." In Elmo's World: Babies", Mr. Noodle tries to play baseball with Natasha.

• The Sesame Street Live show When I Grow Up, Telly wants to be a baseball player.

• Mrs. Trump and Uncle Wally often went to baseball games together.

• Tommy and Sally Wilson come back to visit their childhood home (of which they broke its windows playing baseball) in a "Here is Your Life" sketch.

• The "7th Inning Stretch Song" is sung in the direct to video Count on Sports. The video also features Murray Monster finding shapes in a baseball field.

• In the song, "At the Bus Stop Sign", a boy named Lefty claims he needs to catch the number 9 bus to get to his baseball game.

• The song "One of These Things" has featured baseballs numerous times:

• Episode 0536 featured Bob dressed as a baseball player (among other athletes).

• Three kids play Basketball and one plays baseball in episode 1149.

• Bob asks which is not like the other among a grapefruit, an orange, a baseball, and a milk carton in episode 2947.

• Animated segments featuring baseball include:

• A bully won't give a kids' baseball back, and the boy imagines a few scenarios before ultimately calling for his dog. (EKA: Episode 0235)

• A girl picks up a stick and imagines she is a circus magician, a conductor, and a baseball player. (EKA: Episode 1106)

• Pinball Number Count number 9 features mechanical baseball players. (EKA: Episode 2073)

• An Alien asking a little boy for directions to a baseball diamond. (EKA: Episode 2107)

• "The Stranger", a song about a baseball team hesitantly allowing a newcomer to join them, who ends up helping them win the game. (EKA: Episode 2476)

• The Teeny Little Superguy notices his friend Alice wanting to join a baseball game, and encourages her to join. (EKA: Episode 2481)

• Three characters try to watch a baseball game over a fence, then cooperate by stacking their blocks. (EKA: Episode 3774)

• Thelma Thumb retrieves a lost baseball that has gone down a rabbit hole.

• Sesame Street short films featuring baseball include:

• The Letter B is for ball, bat, base, and baseball. (EKA: Episode 3811)

• Wegman's dogs get their exercise by playing baseball. (EKA: Episode 3851)

• A group of Hispanic children picking members for their baseball team. (EKA: Episode 0811)

• Many Sesame books have featured baseball as either a passing reference, or as a focal point in its story:

• Count to Ten uses a baseball team to illustrate the number 9.

• Ernie wants to bring his baseball glove to show and tell in Ernie's Window.

• Elmo's Home Run features a rubber squeeze baseball built into the book.

• A baseball helps ruin A Perfect Picnic.

• The Sesame Street Library Volume 9 features the story of "The Nine Dragons," a baseball team consisting of Big Bird, Guy Smiley, Farley, Bert, Ernie, Grover, Roosevelt Franklin, Betty Lou and a Fat Blue on a baseball team.

• Nobody will pick Grover for their baseball team in the book Why Are You So Mean to Me?

• Frazzle plays catcher in a baseball game with Bert and Betty Lou in the 1980 edition of Who's Who on Sesame Street.

• Granny Bird gets Big Bird a baseball bat for Christmas in the book I Can't Wait Until Christmas.

• Applause has made PVC figures of Ernie and Bert playing baseball.

• Playskool made a wooden puzzle with the Sesame Street gang playing baseball.

• Gorham Fine China made a Ernie baseball piggy bank.

• In episode 2513, the cast sings about Springtime. Gordon says that during Spring, he partakes in baseball games.

The Muppet Show Characters

• The Swedish Chef refers to his baseball bat as a "cakenschmooscher" in episode 120 of The Muppet Show.

• Miss Piggy answers questions about baseball in Miss Piggy's Guide to Life.

• Lewis Kazagger reports from spring training where he interviews baseballs for an episode of Good Morning America.

• The Fabulous Baseball Diamond is the largest diamond in the world and the prized jewel of Lady Holiday in The Great Muppet Caper.

• The Jim Henson's Muppet Trading Cards features cards showing Miss Piggy playing baseball ("Diamonds Are a Pig's Best Friend") and Animal and Fozzie playing baseball ("Animal Strikes Out!").

• The "Rowlf on Books" section of Muppet Magazine's Summer 1987 issue features many baseball books including Sports Illustrated's Great Moments in Baseball and Strange and Amazing Baseball Stories. The Spring 1983 issue also features baseball books.

• Bob Hope asks Kermit to be on his baseball team in the television special Bob Hope's Salute to the 75th Anniversary of the World Series.

Bear in the Big Blue House

• Bear made a few appearances at baseball games in 2002.

• The Bear in the Big Blue House episode "At the Old Bear Game", reveals that Pip and Pop collect baseball cards.

• It is revealed that Grandma Flutter played baseball (disguised with a moustache) for the River City Rodents, and started a women's baseball league in the episode "Grandma Flutter's 100th Birthday."

• The Woodland Valley General Store sells baseball cards.

• Sequoia City has a baseball team called the "Big Bats."

Muppet Babies

• The Muppet Babies' Classic Nursery Rhymes features the cast in a baseball dugout for "Rain, Rain, Go Away."

• Rainbow Toys made a Baby Scooter PVC figure playing baseball.

International Productions

• The Sesame English episode "Tingo at the Bat" features Niki teaching Tingo how to play baseball, and the episode "Here in Right Field" features her teaching him how to catch. "Here in Right Field" also features a film about baseball. In "What's Your Favorite Sport?", Tingo names baseball as one of his many favorite sports and displays video footage of a kids baseball game.

• Pancho and the kids prepare to play baseball. They count off 9 players, 9 hats and 9 balls. Pancho then counts his 9 pitches, one of which hits him square on the head in episode 904 of Plaza Sésamo.

• A Sesamstraat PVC figure features Pino playing baseball.

Other References

• A baseball outfit was available for Anything Muppets from the Muppet Whatnot Workshop.

• Fozzie and his Grandpa play baseball in the Muppet Kids book Something Special, and Kermit cannot in Too Many Promises.

• Wilkins and Wontkins play baseball in a commerical for Wilkins Coffee and Kraml Dairy.

• The Southern Colonel visited the original Yankee Stadium in a Southern Bread commercial.

• Snarl asks Santa Claus for a baseball mitt in The Great Santa Claus Switch.

• A Muppets' Sports Shorts cartoon on the Little Muppet Monsters episode "The Great Boodini" features baseball.

• On Dinosaurs, Sinclair City builds a new baseball stadium for the home of the newly formed team "The Central Pangaean Cavemen."

• The Fraggle Rock game Rock Hockey takes part of its rule book from baseball.

Baseball Players

Ron DarlingNew York Mets Sesame Street	Mark FidrychDetroit Tigers Sports Illustrated Cover	Steve GarveySan Diego Padres Muppet Magazine
Keith HernandezNew York Mets Sesame Street	Ed KranepoolNew York Mets Sesame Street	Jon LieberChicago Cubs Bear Baseball Appearance
Fred McGriffChicago Cubs Bear Baseball Appearance	Hideki MatsuiNew York Yankees Tokyo Dome exhibition game	Jackie RobinsonBrooklyn Dodgers Sesame Street
Art ShamskyNew York Mets Sesame Street	Sammy SosaChicago Cubs Bear Baseball Appearance	Joe TorreNew York Yankees manager Sesame Street
Mookie WilsonNew York Mets Sesame Street	Dave WinfieldNew York Yankees Muppet Magazine and Sesame Street

From The Vault

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Baseball is a ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The goal of baseball is to score points by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four cushions called bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team (the offensive team) take turns hitting while the other team (the defensive team) tries to stop them from scoring runs by getting hitters out in any of several ways. A player on the offensive team can stop at any of the bases and hope to score on a teammate's hit. The teams switch between offensive and defensive whenever the offensive team gets three outs. One turn at bat for each team constitutes an inning; nine innings make up a game. The team with the most scores at the end of the game wins.

History of Baseball

This sport is played in Vault 101 in the 23rd century.

On July 13, 2268, there is a notice in Vault 101's Cafeteria announcing a vacancy in one of the baseball teams. The vacancy is for the team position of shortstop. A shortstop is a position on the defensive team between the second and third bases. A baseball game is scheduled for the upcoming Saturday in the Atrium.

President John Henry Eden speaks of reviving this sport on Enclave Radio in Fallout 3.

Baseball can refer to:

• The Louisville Slugger Baseball Bat, a melee weapon that does extreme damage, second only to the Super Sledge, in Fallout 2
• Slugger, the Fallout Tactics version of the baseball bat.
• Baseball, the ball the sport is named after. You can obtain this item in Fallout 3.
• Baseball Bat, a strong melee weapon you can obtain early in Fallout 3.
• Baseball Glove, a glove used in the sport to catch the ball. You can obtain this item in Fallout 3.
• Kid's Baseball Cap, a cap used while playing baseball. You can obtain it during the player's 10th birthday, where it increases Melee Weapons Skill by5.)
• Pre-War Baseball Cap, same as above, but found as an adult. it increases Perception by 1.

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