Baseball

                Bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. To score a run,hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team  take turns hitting against the pitcher of the other team, which tries to stop them from scoring runs by getting hitters outin any of several ways. A player on the batting team can stop at any of the bases and later advance via a teammate's hit or other means. The teams switch between batting and fielding whenever the fielding team records three outs. One turn at bat for each team constitutes an inning and nine innings make up a professional game. The team with the most runs at the end of the game wins.

         A ball used in the sport of the same name is baseball.It is a round ball weighing aproximately 5 ounces or 142 grams. The interior of the ball is traditionally filled with cork or rubber. Some balls contain a mixture of the two. It is then covered in a leather shell and held together with 108 red cotton stitches.