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Questions about the sport of baseball in general. For the American professional baseball league, see [mlb]. Note that autograph identification questions ("Who signed this baseball?") are OFF-TOPIC and will be closed.
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What is a balk?
Baserunning
I'll step back and explain some baseball on the theory that people who don't know what a balk is may not know how baserunning works. This may or may not be known to the asker already. … Apparently the people who were setting the rules for baseball in 1898 found games played that way to be boring (or possibly ungentlemanly, as John Bollinger suggests). …
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Field of Dreams Game
The Major League Baseball (MLB) game was held on a special-built field near the one used in the movie (which is preserved as a tourist attraction). … The "Black Sox" players were banned from baseball starting in 1920. So those choices would have been the series as it should have been played in 1919 or the series that could have been in 1920. …