What's on your mind? Jacoby Ellsbury and the Quest for the All-Star Game!

[MickeyisBeast]

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The goal is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team (the batting team) take turns hitting against the pitcher of the other team (the fielding team), which tries to stop them from scoring runs by getting hitters out in any of several ways. A player on the batting team can stop at any of the bases and later advance via a teammate's hit or other means. The teams switch between batting and fielding whenever the fielding team records three outs. One turn at bat for each team constitutes an inning and nine innings make up a professional game. The team with the most runs at the end of the game wins.

 

[MickeyisBeast]

Evolving from older bat-and-ball games, an early form of baseball was being played in England by the mid-eighteenth century. This game and the related rounders were brought by British and Irish immigrants to North America, where the modern version of baseball developed. By the late nineteenth century, baseball was widely recognized as the national sport of the United States. Baseball on the professional, amateur, and youth levels is now popular in North America, parts of Central and South America and the Caribbean, and parts of East Asia. The game is sometimes referred to as hardball, in contrast to the derivative game of softball.

EIMEAR YOUR HERITAGE HELPED BASE THE CREATION OF BASEBALL.

 

[LondonUnderground]

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The goal is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team (the batting team) take turns hitting against the pitcher of the other team (the fielding team), which tries to stop them from scoring runs by getting hitters out in any of several ways. A player on the batting team can stop at any of the bases and later advance via a teammate's hit or other means. The teams switch between batting and fielding whenever the fielding team records three outs. One turn at bat for each team constitutes an inning and nine innings make up a professional game. The team with the most runs at the end of the game wins.

Evolving from older bat-and-ball games, an early form of baseball was being played in England by the mid-eighteenth century. This game and the related rounders were brought by British and Irish immigrants to North America, where the modern version of baseball developed. By the late nineteenth century, baseball was widely recognized as the national sport of the United States. Baseball on the professional, amateur, and youth levels is now popular in North America, parts of Central and South America and the Caribbean, and parts of East Asia. The game is sometimes referred to as hardball, in contrast to the derivative game of softball.

 

[marypops!]

It's melting!

 

[LondonUnderground]

Evolving from older bat-and-ball games, an early form of baseball was being played in England by the mid-eighteenth century. This game and the related rounders were brought by British and Irish immigrants to North America, where the modern version of baseball developed. By the late nineteenth century, baseball was widely recognized as the national sport of the United States. Baseball on the professional, amateur, and youth levels is now popular in North America, parts of Central and South America and the Caribbean, and parts of East Asia. The game is sometimes referred to as hardball, in contrast to the derivative game of softball.

EIMEAR YOUR HERITAGE HELPED BASE THE CREATION OF BASEBALL.

woop woop! we still play rounders in school fun fun fun fun

 

[MickeyisBeast]

Evolving from older bat-and-ball games, an early form of baseball was being played in England by the mid-eighteenth century. This game and the related rounders were brought by British and Irish immigrants to North America, where the modern version of baseball developed. By the late nineteenth century, baseball was widely recognized as the national sport of the United States. Baseball on the professional, amateur, and youth levels is now popular in North America, parts of Central and South America and the Caribbean, and parts of East Asia. The game is sometimes referred to as hardball, in contrast to the derivative game of softball.

In North America, professional Major League Baseball (MLB) teams are divided into the National League (NL) and American League (AL). Each league has three divisions: East, West, and Central. Every year, the major league champion is determined by playoffs that culminate in the World Series. Four teams make the playoffs from each league: the three regular season division winners, plus one wild card team. Baseball is the leading team sport in both Japan and Cuba, and the top level of play is similarly split between two leagues: Japan's Central League and Pacific League; Cuba's West League and East League. In the National and Central leagues, the pitcher is required to bat, per the traditional rules. In the American, Pacific, and both Cuban leagues, there is a tenth player, a designated hitter, who bats for the pitcher. Each top-level team has a farm system of one or more minor league teams. These teams allow younger players to develop as they gain on-field experience against opponents with similar levels of skill.

 

[LondonUnderground]

how to get jacoby ellsbury's autograph, by lex

1. Okay well OBVIOUSLY you need to remember to bring a baseball/jersey/whatevs you want signed lmao, and a Sharpie! All of the Sox players had their own Sharpies but just in case, bring one.. or steal someone else’s lmao.

 

[MickeyisBeast]

(North Carolina has a farm system team. We're the minor league team for the Chicago White Sox!)

 

[LondonUnderground]

2. I recommend making a clever poster that’s visible. During BP they sometimes spot them and if it’s really damn clever, they’ll point and notice you, and if you start freaking out that may increase your chances of him coming over lmao.

 

[MickeyisBeast]

The evolution of baseball from older bat-and-ball games is difficult to trace with precision. A French manuscript from 1344 contains an illustration of clerics playing a game, possibly la soule, with similarities to baseball.[1] Other old French games such as théque, la balle au bâton, and la balle empoisonée also appear to be related.[2] Consensus once held that today's baseball is a North American development from the older game rounders, popular in Great Britain and Ireland. Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game (2005), by David Block, suggests that the game originated in England; recently uncovered historical evidence supports this position. Block argues that rounders and early baseball were actually regional variants of each other, and that the game's most direct antecedents are the English games of stoolball and "tut-ball".[3] It has long been believed that cricket also descended from such games, though evidence uncovered in early 2009 suggests that the sport may have been imported to England from Flanders.[4]

 

[LondonUnderground]

3. You have to go SUPER, SUPER EARLY, I cannot stress this enough!! You’re going to Safeco Field? Google tells me all gates open 2 hours prior to gametime.. so for a night game at 7:10.. if you get there at 4:30ish, by the third base gates, you should be good.

 

[MickeyisBeast]

this lex chick says "lmao" a lot xD

The earliest known reference to baseball is in a 1744 British publication, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, by John Newbery. It contains a rhymed description of "base-ball" and a woodcut that shows a field set-up somewhat similar to the modern game—though in a triangular rather than diamond configuration, and with posts instead of ground-level bases.[5] English lawyer William Bray recorded a game of baseball on Easter Monday 1755 in Guildford, Surrey; Bray's diary was verified as authentic in September 2008.[6] This early form of the game was apparently brought to North America by English immigrants. Rounders was also brought to the continent by both British and Irish immigrants. The first known American reference to baseball appears in a 1791 Pittsfield, Massachusetts, town bylaw prohibiting the playing of the game near the town's new meeting house.[7] By 1796, a version of the game was well-known enough to earn a mention in a German scholar's book on popular pastimes. As described by Johann Gutsmuths, "englische Base-ball" involved a contest between two teams, in which "the batter has three attempts to hit the ball while at the home plate". Only one out was required to retire a side.[8

 

[marypops!]

I want to visit this place.

 

[grandfloluver]

Get'cha Head In The Game! Yeah...I'm watching HSM.

 

[LondonUnderground]

4. You’re going to want to go to your seats probs ‘cause they sound AMAZING. But just RUN LIKE THE WIND TO THE THIRD BASE DUGOUT! Knock over small children LMAO, just get down the first row!

 

[LondonUnderground]

this lex chick says "lmao" a lot xD

LOL i know

5. Now this totaaaaally depends on your preference. Since you have BP, you probably are going to want to stand on the right sight of the dugout (by the manager’s seat) because that’s where the hitting player’s will be around. You are almost guaranteed to get an autograph as long as you stand behind the dugout, somewhere. The guys are all really nice and really patient and SOMEONE will sign for a good five/ten minutes.

 

[marypops!]

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe...

 

[LondonUnderground]

6. Now here’s where things get risky: if you want to take a chance at getting a picture with him and being a little more personal, you can forget standing by the dugout. You can stand on either the third baseline or near home plate, by the walls, where players come over. Where you stand is totally up to you, and you really just figure it out at gametime.. you gotta make an impulse choice haha.

 

[MickeyisBeast]

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am I the only one who constantly gets that ad here on the DIS? haha.

 

[LondonUnderground]

7. God forbid Jacoby starts signing somewhere else (say you’re behind the dugout and he’s over by the baseline) RUN LIKE HELL, KNOCK OVER PEOPLE, DO NOT APOLOGIZE, CUT LINES, GET TO THE FRONT OF THE CROWD. Hahahaha it’s mean but it’s true.