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Middle and High School
Find a story about baseball in your
newspaper is there a photograph from a
baseball game? See it you can answer the
following questions based on the story:
Who pitched the game?
Who made the greatest number of hits?
What was the name of the winning team?
What was the final score?
How many innings did the game go?
Elementary
• Make a list of food items that might be
served at the ball park concession stand
What would you want to eat or drink? How
much do you think each item would cost?
Check to see if anything you want to eat is
listed for sale in the newspaper How much
money should you take to the game?
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The Base
Early players were often hurt
when they ran into the stakes. Those
were replaced by flat rocks, but rocks
weren't much better. Rocks were
ditched in favor of a cloth bag filled
with sand, similar to bases used to-
day.
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hit or “plugged" the runner. Players
caught the ball bare-handed and used
flat-sided cricket bats. Players had to
be tough to withstand the game.
Today, players still need to be in
good physical shape Times have
changed and so has the game that is
now called baseball. The equipment
and field have changed considerably
since those colonial days.
It's time for hot dogs, peanuts,
popcorn and the crack of the bat.
Spring is here and so is the baseball
season
Baseball started in the United
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The infield is a square with a base
at each corner. Each base is 90 feet
from the next one. (In Little League play,
the bases are 60 feet apart.)
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Earth Day 2000
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