Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The goal of baseball is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four markers called bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team (the offense) take turns hitting while the other team (the defense) tries to stop them from scoring runs by getting hitters out in any of several ways. A player on offense can stop at any of the bases and hope to score on a teammate's hit. The teams switch between offense and defense whenever the team on defense gets three outs. One turn on offense for each team constitutes an inning; nine innings make up a professional game. The team with the most runs at the end of the game wins. Each team is allowed to substitute for any player at any time the ball is dead. Any player who replaces another player between innings is known as a ‘defensive replacement’. Any replacement is a permanent substitution; the replaced player may not return to the game.

Baseball is fundamentally a team sport—even a franchise financially blessed enough to afford two or three Hall of Fame-caliber players cannot count on success. Yet it places individual players under great pressure and check. Baseball is largely known as America's pastime, but has a fan base in several other countries as well. Many European countries have pro leagues as well, the most successful beside the Dutch being the Italian league founded in 1948. Baseball is most popular in East Asia and the Americas, although in South America its popularity is mainly limited to the northern portion of the continent. Baseball is played at a number of levels, by amateur and professionals, and by the young and the old. To know every detail of this famous game, go through sportsguru.com.au.