An old engraving showing a diagram of a baseball field. It is from Victorian book of the 1890s on sports, games and pastimes. A game of baseball (ball field or baseball diamond or park) has changed little since the Knickerbocker Rules of the 1840s. The batsman’s position is on the home plate (or home). The other three corners of the square are first, second, and third base. Near the centre of the square is the pitcher's mound. The area within the square formed by the bases is officially called the in field; fair territory outside the infield is known as the out field.
An old engraving showing a diagram of a baseball field. It is from Victorian book of the 1890s on sports, games and pastimes. A game played on a baseball field (ball field or baseball diamond or park) has changed little since the Knickerbocker Rules of the 1840s. Those rules specified the distance from home to second as 42 ‘paces’. The starting point for much of the action on the field is the batsman’s position on the home plate (or home), a five-sided slab of white rubber. The other three corners of the square are first, second, and third base. These bases are marked by canvas or rubber cushions. Near the centre of the square is an artificial hill known as the pitcher's mound, atop which is a white rubber slab known as the pitcher's plate or ‘rubber’. The lines from home plate to first and third bases extend to the nearest fence or stand and are called the foul lines. The portion of the playing field between (and including) the foul lines is fair territory; the rest is ‘foul territory’. The area within the square formed by the bases is officially called the in field; fair territory outside the infield is known as the out field. Most professional and college baseball fields have a right and left foul pole or post which are about 440 to 500 feet (130 to 150 m) apart. These poles are at the intersection of the foul lines and the respective ends of the outfield fence and, unless otherwise specified within the ground rules, lie in fair territory. Thus, a batted ball that passes over the outfield wall in flight and touches the foul pole is a fair ball and the batter is awarded a home run.
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