Baseball
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[edit] Baseball in "Batboy"
Baseball players Rip and Laszlo Kovacs of the St. Louis Browns were on a road trip they realized that the team's batboy, Zoltan Nagy, son of newspaper reporter Gyula Nagy, was a vampire.
The Browns played in Boston, New York City, and Detroit over the course of the year.
[edit] Baseball in Southern Victory
Baseball was a sport known throughout the United States and the Confederate States but popular only in the New England region of the US. In every other region of both countries, football was a far more popular sport, though baseball bats made effective weapons in street brawls.
[edit] Baseball in Worldwar
Baseball was a sport most popular in the United States, but it was also played in Japan and several territories ruled by the Race. Sam Yeager began his career as a baseball player and was playing for the Decatur Commodores when the Race invaded Earth in 1942. Later, as guard for Lizard POWs Ullhass and Ristin, he taught his two charges to play baseball.
Ullhass and Ristin were not the only members of the Race to play baseball; it became fairly popular among the Race's expatriate community in the US. Lizards' skittering walking motion made them talented middle infielders, and being smaller than humans, their strike zones were correspondingly small and thus difficult to pitch into. However, the Race's musculature prevented its members from becoming power hitters.
Great baseball players include Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees and Mickey Mantle of the Kansas City Athletics.
[edit] Baseball in The Disunited States of America
Rounders was a sport that was popular in the east coast of North America, but lost out to soccer on the west coast and in the Mexican states.
Justin Monroe noted privately that rounders was close to the home timeline game of baseball.
