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	Comparison between cricket and baseball - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cricket bowlers, since they are not restricted to a small strike zone as their target, also use a wide variety of approaches which are not available to baseball pitchers.
		Baseball pitchers, by contrast, must use changes in ball speed and movement caused only by air friction and spin to deceive batters, as most pitches which come near touching the ground are ineffectively allowed to pass as balls.
		Cricket's bowlers are grouped into different categories based on their bowling style: pacemen, seamers, off-spinners, leg-spinners, wrist-spinners (as opposed to finger-spinners), etc., though a bowler often falls into more than one category.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Comparison_between_cricket_and_baseball (6020 words)

	Baseball - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Baseball is a team sport, in which a fist-sized ball is thrown by a defensive player called a pitcher and hit by an offensive player called a batter with a round, smooth stick called a bat.
		Baseball is played between two teams of nine players each on a baseball field, usually under the authority of one or more officials, called umpires.
		Baseball history is full of heroes and goats—men who in the heat of the moment distinguished themselves with a timely hit or catch, or an untimely strikeout or error.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Baseball (5915 words)

	Category:Baseball - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Baseball is a team sport that is popular in the Americas and East Asia.
		In its usual form, the game of baseball is played between two teams of nine players on a playing field consisting of four bases, arranged in a diagonal square ("the diamond") and a large outfield extending from two adjacent sides of the diamond.
		The main piece of equipment is the baseball plus bats, gloves and bases.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Baseball (163 words)

	Ask Us A Question (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Cricket is also a major sport in England and Wales, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe and the English-speaking countries of the Caribbean, which are collectively known in cricketing parlance as the West Indies.
		Cricket was prominent in London as early as 1707 and large crowds flocked to matches on the Artillery Ground in Finsbury.
		The Test cricket series between England and Australia is called The Ashes, with the trophy being a tiny fragile urn, reputed to hold the ashes of a bail or cricket ball used during the second Test series between the two countries.
	www.avoo.com /wiki/Cricket (6259 words)

	Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Baseball
		Baseball is a team sport, in which a fist-sized ball is thrown by a player called a pitcher and hit with a bat.
		In the United States, baseball has often been called the national pastime; the total attendance for Major League games is more than that of all other American professional team sports combined.
		Effective pitching is vitally important to a baseball team, as pitching is the key for the defensive team to retiring batters and runners to hold the other team at bay.
	www.fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Baseball (5983 words)

	BASEBALL : Encyclopedia Entry
		Baseball is played between two teams of nine players each on a baseball field, under the authority of one or more officials, called umpires.
		Baseball's history is full of heroes and goats—men who in the heat of the moment (the "clutch") distinguished themselves with a timely hit or catch, or an untimely strikeout or error.
		Baseball is most popular in East Asia and the Americas, although in South America its popularity is mainly limited to the northern portion of the continent.
	bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Baseball (10000 words)

	Baseball
		In the United States, baseball has often been called the national pastime, and the total attendance for Major League games is more than that of all other American professional sports combined.
		Traditionally, there is a short break between the top half and the bottom half of the seventh inning, known as the seventh-inning stretch.
		Baseball is a team game—even two or three Hall of Fame-caliber players cannot guarantee a pennant by themselves.
	www.askfactmaster.com /Baseball (5152 words)

	Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Baseball (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Baseball is a team sport in which a player on one team (the pitcher) attempts to throw a hard, fist-sized ball past a player on the other team (the batter), who attempts to hit the baseball with a tapered, smooth cylinder called a bat.
		Baseball history is full of heroes and goats—men who in the heat of the moment (the "clutch") distinguished themselves with a timely hit or catch, or an untimely strikeout or error.
		Baseball is thought to be a direct descendant of cricket, rounders, and town ball (which was much like rounders).
	www.blinkbits.com /blinks/baseball (9312 words)

	Early Baseball and Cricket in America
		The Boston cricketers of the time encouraged "rounders" as a secondary diversion, and even allowed it to be played in their cricket fields by those who preferred an alternative to the more formal sport of cricket.
		It seems the cricketers of the day had no particular interest in having the number of bases conform to cricket, as in the earlier two-base version of the game---as far as they were concerned, it did not matter.
		Baseball, on the other hand, became shorter and more abbreviated....pitchers assumed an active rather than passive role, then came to dominate the sport; baseball batters were allowed fewer and fewer options, could spend less time at bat, and the rules were changed to favor shorter games.
	www.seattlecricket.com /history/bsblckt.htm (1637 words)

	Top20baseball.com - Your Top20 Guide for baseball!
		Although three of the four most popular sports in North America are ball games (baseball, basketball and American football), baseball's popularity grew so great that the word "ballgame" in the United States almost always refers to a game of baseball, and "ballpark" to a baseball field.
		Baseball is thought to be a direct descendant of cricket, rounders, and town ball (which was much like rounders), though the game's true origins are uncertain.
		A series of strikes and lockouts began in baseball, affecting portions of the 1972 and 1981 seasons and culminating in the infamous strike of 1994 that led to the cancellation of the World Series and carried over into 1995 before it was finally settled.
	www.top20baseball.com (8043 words)

	Times of Oman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Bush, an avid baseball fan, even had to be shown which way around to hold the willow blade when he met local schoolchildren and members of Pakistan's team during a visit to the cricket-mad country.
		Meanwhile Pakistan's former cricket captain turned politician Imran Khan was firmly stuck in the pavilion -- he was under house arrest for trying to lead a protest against Bush's visit.
		Bush gave a baseball to Inzamam and asked the embassy staff to present one ball each, signed by him, to the playing children.
	www.timesofoman.com /print.asp?newsid=26617 (432 words)

	BUSH LEARNS BASICS OF CRICKET DURING PAKISTAN VISIT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		US President George W. Bush was introduced to basics of Pakistan’s national sport, cricket, by members of Pakistan’s national cricket team at the heavily guarded US embassy’s ground on Saturday, March 4.
		“The president had been looking for "a comparison between cricket and baseball", the BBC quoted Pakistani Cricket team skipper Inzamam-ul-Haq as saying who along with Pakistani Cricket team’s opening Batsman, Salman Butt met President Bush at the US embassy’s compound amid tight security on Saturday.
		Cricket became very popular with Pakistanis after the country won World Cup in 1992 under the headship of former Cricketer Imran Khan.
	www.assistnews.net /stories/s06030034.htm (302 words)

	Bush plays cricket with students -DAWN - Top Stories; March 5, 2006
		Mr Bush, an avid baseball fan, even had to be shown which way around to hold the willow blade when he met local schoolchildren and members of Pakistan’s team during a visit to the cricket-mad country.
		President Bush then rolled up the sleeves of his light blue shirt, walked to the wicket and smacked the bat on the back of his shoe like a baseball player.
		Then he was given some tips from the children and from Inzamam on how to bowl, before pitching the ball straight at a young batsman and then chucking down a few wides.
	www.dawn.com /2006/03/05/top8.htm (439 words)

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