The Random Thread and the Royal Family of Canadia, the USA, and Great Britain

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Ah college life, where freedom reigns free.
Plus there’s skateboarding mascots everywhere.
EVERYWHERE.

 

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A compilation of the greatest photobomber the BBC has ever seen.

 

[LondonUnderground]

Don't know your RBI from your ERA? Not sure what hitting a sacrifice fly or making a triple play involves?

Baseball is a simple game complicated by jargon.

 

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MAJOR LEAGUE

The Majors are two leagues - American and National - each has three divisions: West, Central and East.

 

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Every team plays every other in their league, and they play more games against those in their division. The leagues don't meet until the World Series, apart from a few specially created interleague games.

 

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The leagues also play an All-Star exhibition game during the mid-season break, with the starting outfield players selected by a fans' ballot.

 

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Each team plays 162 regular season games. They play each other in three or four-game series, and teams often play a string of these away on a road trip.

 

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Each league's three divisional winners are joined by one wild card to make up the league semi-finals, followed by best-of-seven league finals and then the World Series, also known as the Fall Classic.

 

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KEY TERMS - BATTING

AT BATS (AB): Turns at batting. Normally four or five per game for a starting outfield player.

 

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Where'd you find these?

 

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HITS (H): Any time a player connects with the ball and gets to at least first base. This is the most important statistic for a non-pitcher.

 

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You don't get a hit if a fielder makes a mistake, known as an error, or decides to throw to another base to get somebody else out, a fielder's choice.

 

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Getting to first is called a single, second a double, third a triple (quite rare), and all the way around is a home run. But they all count as one hit.

 

[marypops!]

On Deviantart. I found some person's awesome comic strip on another website, and she also did these HP ones. I reached the last one though D-:

 

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A batter who records the rare feat of a single, a double, a triple and a home run in the same game is said to have hit for the cycle.

 

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BATTING AVERAGE (AVG): As in cricket, this is the key measure of player's worth. In short, this is hits divided by at bats.

 

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i might continue tomorrow if I have time, but i have to switch over to my phone now and go to bed. so i'll be back in a while.

 

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGxbYGWmKE0

 

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2 of the rarest roses.