baseball
American-originated sport in which teams compete to score runs by hitting a thrown ball and advancing around bases
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baseball
Summary
baseball is a sport[1]. baseball ranks in the top 5% of sport entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (14,415 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- baseball is credited with the discovery of Abner Doubleday[3].
- baseball's instance of is recorded as sport[4].
- baseball's instance of is recorded as sport with racquet/stick/club[5].
- baseball is a type of bat-and-ball game[6].
- baseball is a type of team sport[7].
- baseball's Commons category is recorded as Baseball[8].
- baseball's patron saint is recorded as Saint Rita of Cascia[9].
- baseball's Unicode character is recorded as ⚾[10].
- baseball's country of origin is recorded as United States[11].
- baseball comprises inning[12].
- baseball comprises home plate[13].
- baseball comprises pitch[14].
- baseball's time of discovery or invention is recorded as 1900[15].
- baseball's authority is recorded as World Baseball Softball Confederation[16].
- baseball's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Baseball[17].
- baseball's Commons gallery is recorded as Baseball[18].
- baseball's topic's main Wikimedia portal is recorded as Portal:Baseball[19].
- baseball's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as sport=baseball[20].
- baseball's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[21].
- baseball's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[22].
- baseball's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[23].
- baseball's topic has template is recorded as Q63992199[24].
- baseball's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C94742[25].
- baseball's maximum number of players is recorded as {'amount': '+9'}[26].
- baseball's different from is recorded as Baseball[27].
Body
Definition and Type
Recorded instance of include sport[4] and sport with racquet/stick/club[5]. Recorded subclass of include bat-and-ball game[6] and team sport[7].
Use and Application
Components include inning[12]; home plate[13]; and pitch[14], a musical concept[28].
Influence
Things named for baseball include yakyūken[29].
Why It Matters
baseball ranks in the top 5% of sport entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (14,415 views/month).[2] baseball has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] baseball is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]
Entities named for baseball include yakyūken[29].