Bat-and-ball games, or safe haven games, are field games played by two opposing teams. Action starts when the defending team throws a ball at a dedicated...
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categories, including: Bat-and-ball games, such as cricket and baseball. Invasion games, such as football and basketball. Net and wall games, such as volleyball...
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List of sports (section Bat-and-ball games)
Tee-ball Wiffleball Wireball Bat and trap Bete-ombro Brännboll – four bases British baseball Cricket – two creases 100-ball cricket Backyard, Beach and Street...
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Western sports (redirect from Western games)
modern bat-and-ball games are cricket and baseball, with common roots in the 18th-century games played in England. Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played...
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Wicket (sport) (redirect from Wicket ball)
of cricket, threatened to see cricket overtaken as the most popular bat-and-ball sport in the country, American cricket fans sought for new ways to keep...
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of baseball and softball, a batted ball is a pitch that has been contacted by the batter's bat. Batted balls are either fair or foul, and can be characterized...
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Bat-and-ball may refer to: Bat-and-ball games Bat & Ball Inn, Hambledon in Hampshire, England Bat & Ball railway station in Kent, England Turn and slip...
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Bat and trap is an English bat-and-ball pub game. It is still played in Kent, and occasionally in Brighton. By the late 20th century it was usually only...
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game evolution, as well as by political and cultural influence. The game evolved from older bat-and-ball games already being played in England by the mid-18th...
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Baseball rules (redirect from Batting team (baseball))
strikes are a strikeout, and three outs end a half-inning. Baseball evolved out of bat-and-ball games in the mid-19th century, and its modern rules are based...
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Town ball, townball, or Philadelphia town ball, is a bat-and-ball, safe haven game played in North America in the 18th and 19th centuries, which was similar...
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ball in bat-and-ball games Baseball bat Cricket bat Pesäpallo § Bat Softball § Bat Bat, an alternative name for a racket Table tennis racket or bat Bolo...
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Possession (sports) (redirect from Ball possession)
bat-and-ball games including baseball and cricket, the ball is controlled by the fielding team, which is on defense. Possession at the start of a game (and,...
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Batting gloves are a component in bat-and-ball games sportswear. Typically consisting of a leather palm and back made of nylon or another synthetic fabric...
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one's wrist. Games are usually played outdoors during the day. As a result, weather conditions wield a considerable influence, and ball badminton's rules...
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bat-and-ball games such as British baseball, its development in the United States also incorporated elements from various other bat-and-ball games. Today...
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Ground billiards (section Game play and equipment)
such as hockey, golf, and bat-and-ball games, is more speculative. As a broader classification, the term is sometimes applied to games dating back to classical...
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domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Trap-ball". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. "Bat and Ball Games - Online Guide". Ower Bit Bog...
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Cycling World Championships Cycle-ball at the 2005 and 2007 Asian Indoor Games Cycle-ball at the 1989 World Games Cycle polo Hardcourt Bike Polo Heijmans...
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Volleyball (redirect from Volley ball)
grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summer Olympic Games since Tokyo 1964...
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Gillidanda (category Indian games)
a smaller one, the gilli. It bears many similarities to bat and ball games such as cricket and baseball. Gullidanda is an ancient sport, possibly with...
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Test cricket (section Clothing and equipment)
of each innings. Thus, Team A will bat (and Team B will bowl) until its innings ends, and then Team B will bat and Team A will bowl. When Team B's innings...
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Baseball and cricket are the best-known members of a family of related bat-and-ball games. Both have fields that are 400 feet (120 m) or more in diameter...
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Cricket (redirect from Cricket games)
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field, at the centre of which is a 22-yard (20-metre; 66-foot) pitch with...
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Stickball (redirect from Stick ball)
base, or buildings for foul lines. The game is a variation of stick and ball games dating back to at least the 1750s. This game was widely popular among...
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Origins of baseball (section Bat and ball)
subject of debate and controversy for more than a century. Baseball and the other modern bat, ball, and running games – stoolball, cricket and rounders – were...
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