Baseball was considered to be the national sport of the USA for many, many years and is still very popular today although football is so much more to the fore.
It is played on a field with 9 players in each team, four bases and a lot of running and exercise involved as the teams take turns in batting and fielding.
What is so very nice about baseball is that it can be played unprofessionally at youth camps, field trips and outings when having a lot of young people together.
All that is needed is a big enough field to mark the boundaries in, a baseball bat and a ball.
The baseball has cork or rubber on the inside and this center is covered with leather which is stitched on very tightly.
The bats are slim at the top and have a larger heavy end bit the bat tapering to the larger end.
The bats are almost always made of wood, ash and maple being two of the woods used.
