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baseball

American-originated sport in which teams compete to score runs by hitting a thrown ball and advancing around bases
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Summary

baseball is a sport[1]. baseball ranks in the top 5% of sport entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (43,849 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: Abner Doubleday[3]
  • Instance of: sport with racquet/stick/club[4]
  • Subclass of: bat-and-ball game[5], team sport[6]
  • Commons category: Baseball[7]
  • Patron saint: Saint Rita of Cascia[8]
  • Unicode character: ⚾[9]
  • Country of origin: United States[10]
  • Has part(s): inning[11], home plate[12], pitch[13]
  • Time of discovery or invention: 1900[14]
  • Authority: World Baseball Softball Confederation[15]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Baseball[16]
  • Commons gallery: Baseball[17]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Baseball[18]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: sport=baseball[19]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[20], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[21], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[22]
  • Topic has template: Q63992199[23]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C94742[24]
  • Maximum number of players: 9 gamer[25]
  • Different from: Baseball[26], British baseball[27], Palant[28]
  • Uses: Baseballs[29], baseball bat[30], baseball field[31], baseball glove[32], baseball uniform[33]
  • Permanent duplicated item: baseball[34]
  • Practiced by: baseball player[35], baseball player-manager[36]

Body

Influence

Things named for baseball include yakyūken[37].

Why It Matters

baseball has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[38] baseball is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.[39]

Entities named for baseball include yakyūken[37].

Related Entities

Albert Pujols A League of Their Own Alex Rodriguez Babe Ruth Barry Bonds Bill Monroe Bill O'Reilly Bill Richardson Billy Crystal Chuck Connors Colin Kaepernick Derek Jeter Eiji Sawamura Award Field of Dreams Gavin Newsom Hank Aaron Ichiro Suzuki Jackie Robinson Jim Thorpe Joe DiMaggio Johan Neeskens John Eddie Miller Kurt Russell Lou Gehrig Mario Cuomo Masaoka Shiki Michael Jordan Mickey Mantle Moneyball Nolan North

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . saintritashrine.org. Retrieved . saintritashrine.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [38] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [39] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 7d ago · Ultratomio · 2026-10-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'als', 'an', 'ang', 'anp', 'ar', 'ary', 'arz', 'as', 'ast', 'awa', 'az',
    Sitelink count → 157
    Practiced by → baseball player, baseball player-manager, baseball manager +3
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Practiced by: batting-practice pitcher"
  2. 5w ago · ならちゃん · 2026-09-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Nhk one news topic id → E0000000213
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/54972|batch #54972]]"
  3. 5w ago · HanTsî · 2026-09-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Practiced by → baseball player, baseball player-manager, baseball manager +3
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Practiced by: baseball people"
  4. 7w ago · Rescq · 2026-08-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Süddeutsche zeitung topic id → Baseball
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Süddeutsche zeitung topic id: Baseball, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/213750752|Baseball (#213750752)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7168|Süddeutsche "
  5. 9w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Bishop's chapel (Makó)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  6. 10w ago · Looniverse · 2026-08-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Fürthwiki article id → 60060
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Fürthwiki article id: 60060, Adding FürthWiki Ids"
  7. 11w ago · Superraptor123 · 2026-08-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Fandom wiki id → baseball
    Fandom article id → baseball:Baseball, world-sports-results:Baseball, sto:Baseball
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-references:1||1|1 */ Instance of: sport"
  8. 14w ago · J 1982 · 2026-07-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Fandom article id → baseball:Baseball, world-sports-results:Baseball, sto:Baseball
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Fandom article id: baseball:Baseball"
  9. 15w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 2pOSWx
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  10. 18w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → baseball
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: baseball, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289911279|baseball (#289911279)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n"
  11. 22w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Imdb interest id → in0000167
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007283288005171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
  12. 22w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Fandom article id → baseball:Baseball, world-sports-results:Baseball, sto:Baseball
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Baseball
    Authority → World Baseball Softball Confederation
    Described by source → Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
    + 27 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ Yso id: 15235, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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