BASE-BALL
\bˈe͡ɪsbˈɔːl], \bˈeɪsbˈɔːl], \b_ˈeɪ_s_b_ˈɔː_l]\
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A favorite game of ball in the United States, so-called from the bases, four in number, set down so as to mark the form of a diamond, and which designate the circuit each player must complete, in order to score a run, after striking the ball.
By Daniel Lyons
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b[=a]s'-bawl, n. a game played with a bat and a ball, and run round bases, marking the circuit to be taken by each player of the inside after striking the ball. There are nine players on each side; the pitcher, of the one side, throws the ball; one of the other side tries to hit it as it passes him; and the runs to the bases are regulated according as the ball falls inside or outside certain lines, &c. A development from rounders, base-ball has been the American national game since 1865. [Coupled with cricket in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey (written 1798).]
By Thomas Davidson
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The national game of the U.S. of America, somewhat like our rounders; so called from the four bases, one at each corner of a square, whose side is thirty yards; the first, second, and third being canvas bags, painted white, filled with some soft material, and the home base marked by a flat plate painted white. (See full account, English Cyclopaedia, i. 255).
By Henry Percy Smith
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