The Official Rules of Baseball Illustrated
Publisher: The Lyons Press
Published: April 1, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781592288441
Subjects: Sports & Recreation; Sports; Baseball - General; Reference; Sports & Recreation / Baseball / General; Baseball; History; Rules
First sentence: Seemingly it would be safe to assume that the winner of a baseball game has always been the team that scored the most runs at the end of nine innings; but actually the 1857 season was the first in which a game was required to go nine innings, with five innings constituting an official contest if play were stopped for some reason.