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Meaning
Noun
●
In Baseball & Sports:
A
sport
common in North America, the Caribbean, and Japan, in which the
object
is to
strike
a
ball
so
that one
of a
nine
-person team can
run
counter-clockwise
among
four
bases
,
resulting
in the
scoring
of a
run
. The team with the most
runs after
termination
of
play
, usually
nine
innings
, wins.
●
The
ball
used to
play
the
sport
of baseball.
●
A
variant
of
poker
in which
cards
with baseball-related
values
have
special
significance.
Sourced from
Wiktionary
Origin
baseball
English
ball
English
bal
Middle English (1100-1500)
base
English
bas
Old French (842-ca. 1400)
bassus
Latin
base
Old French (842-ca. 1400)
basis
Latin
βάσις
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Sourced from
Etym
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