Extreme Baseball, also known as Double Diamond Baseball, is a sport based on traditional

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 tea ...

. The main difference is that both teams are on the field at the same time.

Pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw ...

s from each team take turns pitching to batters at two adjacent home plates. One team runs around the bases in the normal

counterclockwise Two-dimensional rotation can occur in two possible directions. Clockwise motion (abbreviated CW) proceeds in the same direction as a clock's hands: from the top to the right, then down and then to the left, and back up to the top. The opposite ...

direction, while the other team runs around bases in a clockwise direction. The world premier game took place on May 5, 2007 at

Historic Sanford Memorial Stadium Historic Sanford Memorial Stadium is a baseball stadium located in Sanford, Florida. The ballpark is located just south of Lake Monroe on Mellonville Avenue, less than a mile from Historic Downtown Sanford. The stadium stands at the site of the ...

Sanford, Florida Sanford is a city in the central region of the U.S. state of Florida and the county seat of Seminole County. As of the 2020 census, its population was 61,051. Known as the "Historic Waterfront Gateway City", Sanford sits on the southern shore ...

. Extreme Baseball was conceived and developed by Phillip Weidner. In 2006, Weidner applied for a

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on the extreme baseball concept and the patent was approved in February, 2010. Extreme Baseball teams from Saint Petersburg, Florida,

Orlando, Florida Orlando () is a city in the U.S. state of Florida and is the county seat of Orange County, Florida, Orange County. In Central Florida, it is the center of the Greater Orlando, Orlando metropolitan area, which had a population of 2,509,831, acco ...

, and

Miami, Florida Miami ( ), officially the City of Miami, known as "the 305", "The Magic City", and "Gateway to the Americas", is a East Coast of the United States, coastal metropolis and the County seat, county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade C ...

were competing as of 2007 in the National Xtreme Baseball League. The league ceased operations sometime during or after 2011; the league's website includes schedules up to 2011, but as of 2021 the website's front page features the statement, "The league is currently for sale and has ceased operations until a new owner is obtained."

References

External links

National eXtreme Baseball Home Page
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