Baseball is a team sport popular in North America, Latin America, the Caribbean and East Asia. The modern game was developed in the United States from early bat-and-ball games played in Britain, and it has become the national sport of the United States. It is a ball game in which a pitcher throws (pitches) a hard, fist-sized ball past the hitting area of a batter. The batter attempts to hit the baseball with a tapered, smooth, cylindrical bat made of wood (required in professional baseball or metal A team scores only when batting, by advancing counter-clockwise past a series of four markers called bases arranged at the corners of a diamond. Each base is 90 feet from the previous base. Baseball is sometimes called hardball to differentiate it from similar games such as softball.

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L.A. Times - Baseball News

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Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800
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ESPN.com - MLB

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Associated Press Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:21:05 -0800
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ESPN.com news services Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:11:29 -0800
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SI.com - MLB

Brewers trade SS Hardy to Twins for CF Gomez
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:09:34 -0500
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Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:09:06 -0500
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Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:08:25 -0500
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Major League Baseball News

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Adam McCalvy Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:58:00 -0400
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