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...

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...

throwing games, dice games, card games, board games, slot games, cue and ball games, bat and ball games, coin pushing/throwing games, and drinking games. In...

Tee-ball Wiffleball Wireball Bat and trap Bete-ombro Brännboll – four bases British baseball Cricket – two creases 100-ball cricket Backyard, Beach and Street...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several...

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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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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

base. However, instead of hitting a small, hard ball with a bat, players kick an inflated rubber ball; this makes it more accessible to young children...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Lapta (Russian: лапта́) is a Russian folk game of the bat-and-ball type, first known to be played in the 14th century. Lapta is documented as early as...

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...