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Royal Belgian Baseball And Softball Federation
The Royal Belgian Baseball and Softball Federation ( nl, Koninklijke Belgische Base en Softball Federatie; french: Fédération Royale Belge de Base et Softball) is the national governing body of baseball and softball in Belgium. The association was established in 1975. The Royal Belgian Baseball and Softball Federation is responsible for the national baseball team, the men's national softball team, the women's national softball team and overseeing the two national leagues: the Flemish League and the Walloon League. History Baseball was introduced in Belgium in the 1920s when American and Japanese sailors played the sport on the Antwerp docks. Baseball was rapidly spread amongst locals and the first league, the Flemish League, was established in the 1930s. On April 1953, Belgium was one of the founding members of the Confederation of European Baseball (now WBSC Europe), alongside France, Italy, Spain and West Germany. Delegates from each one of the countries met in Paris and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding team, called the pitcher, throws a ball that a player on the batting team, called the batter, tries to hit with a bat. The objective of the offensive team (batting team) is to hit the ball into the field of play, away from the other team's players, allowing its players to run the bases, having them advance counter-clockwise around four bases to score what are called " runs". The objective of the defensive team (referred to as the fielding team) is to prevent batters from becoming runners, and to prevent runners' advance around the bases. A run is scored when a runner legally advances around the bases in order and touches home plate (the place where the player started as a batter). The principal objective of the batting team is to have a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
