1、The game is traditionally known as Americas national pastime.The men who play it professionally are the boys of summer.Baseball is considered part of the American spirit.Books,songs,movies,plays,poems and lots of baseball terms have become part of the American experience.Chinese national sport?Table
2、 TennisAmerican national sport?BaseballNo one knows for sure exactly how baseball began.But a copy of the commission report can be seen in the exhibit at the Natural History Museum.So can one of the first baseballs used by Abner Doubleday.The ball was found in a farmhouse near Cooperstown in ninetee
3、n-thirty-four.Organized professional baseball started with the National League.Teams formed this league in eighteen-seventy-six.Baseball was supposed to stand for American beliefs like equality and the chance to succeed.But the sport was representative of society at the time.The National League was
4、for white players only.World War Two and the civil rights movement in the United States helped end the racial divisions in professional baseball.Jackie Robinson became the first black player to break the color barrier.The Brooklyn Dodgers accepted him to their team in nineteen forty-seven.Soon,other
5、 black players began to join major league teams.In nineteen-ten President William Howard Taft started a custom.President Taft threw out the first pitch on opening day of the baseball season that year.Almost every president since then has continued the tradition of the opening day pitch.Signed baseba
6、lls thrown by Presidents Warren Harding,Herbert Hoover,Calvin Coolidge and Dwight Eisenhower as part of the exhibit.So are baseballs thrown by Lyndon Johnson,Richard Nixon,Jimmy Carter and the first President George Bush.Baseball Knowledge Baseball is a game between two teams of nine players each,pl
7、ayed on an enclosed field.Regulation game consists of nine INNINGS,unless extended because of a tie score,or shortened(1)because the home team needs none of its half of the ninth inning or only a fraction of it.Baseball EquipmentA RUN(or SCORE)is the score made by an offensive player who advances fr
8、om batter to runner and touches first,second,third and home bases in that order.The order of the bases is in a counter-clockwise direction around the square from home to first,etc.A BATTER is an offensive player who takes his position in the batters box and attempts to hit a ball thrown to him by th
9、e pitcher.PITCHER is the fielder designated to deliver the pitch to the batter.The pitcher pitches the ball to the batter and the batter attempts to hit the pitch and become a runner.The defense attempts to catch the ball after it is hit and put the batter and/or runners out.A PITCH is a ball delive
10、red to the batter by the pitcher.左外场手中外场手右外场手游击手三垒手二垒手一垒手投手投球区击球员接手司球裁判员本垒一垒二垒三垒跑垒指导员区跑垒指导员区规则 看视频 In North America,professional Major League Baseball(MLB)teams are divided into the National League(NL)and American League(AL).Each league has three divisions:East,West,and Central.Every year,the champi
11、on of Major League Baseball is determined by playoffs that culminate in the World Series.Four teams make the playoffs from each league:the three regular season division winners,plus one wild card team.In 2008,Major League Baseball set a revenue record of$6.5 billion,matching the NFLs revenue for the
12、 first time in decades.Famous Baseball Players in History Babe Ruth:In nineteen-twenty-seven Babe Ruth set a record with sixty homeruns.That record stood for more than thirty years,until Roger Maris hit sixty-one.Famous Negro League Players：Jackie Robinson、Hank Aaron、Willie Mays、Joe DiMaggio、Cool Pa
13、pa Bell、Satchel Paige、Josh Gibson Alex Rodriguez 纽约洋基 13号 最年轻击出五百支全垒打的打手，有希望打破全垒打的大联盟记录，准名人堂球员。Derek Jeter 纽约洋基 2号 有希望达成3000支安打，准名人堂球员，洋基队长。王建民 纽约洋基 40号 台湾之光 亚洲投手在大联盟单季的胜投记录，19胜。CC Sabathia 纽约洋基 52号 身价最高投手，2007年美联赛扬奖得主。Famous Baseball ParksEst.1914 home of the Chicago CubsEst.September 1911 home of
14、the Boston Red SoxEst.April 18,1923,The House That Ruth Built home of the New York YankeesEst.May 12,1966 Est.1914 home of the Chicago CubsEst.September 1911 home of the Boston Red SoxEst.April 18,1923,The House That Ruth Built home of the New York YankeesEst.May 12,1966 Lets go Drink plenty of water
