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<small>''This article is about the game of '''baseball'''. For other uses, see [[Baseball (disambiguation)]]</small>

<small>''This article is about the game of '''baseball'''. For other uses, see [[Baseball (disambiguation)]]</small>

[[Image:Busch Stadium.jpg|right|thumb|250px|A professional baseball game at Busch Memorial Stadium, St. Louis, Missouri.]]

[[Image:Busch Stadium.jpg|right|thumb|250px|A professional baseball game at Busch Memorial Stadium, St. Louis, Missouri.]]

'''Baseball''' is an outdoor sport played between two teams of nine players each, with the object of the game for the offensive player to hit the ball with a wooden bat in such a manner as to allow that player to successfully touch each base on a running circuit and scoring a point at the run's completion at home plate.

'''Baseball''', dubbed the [[American]] "National Pasttime" in 1856 (before the [[American Civil War]]),<ref>https://www.loc.gov/exhibitions/baseball-americana/about-this-exhibition/origins-and-early-days/#:~:text=Amateur%20teams%20flourished%20in%20the,the%20sport%20in%20every%20direction.</ref> is an outdoor sport played between two teams of nine players each, with the object of the game for the offensive player to hit the ball with a wooden bat in such a manner as to allow that player to successfully touch each base on a running circuit and scoring a point at the run's completion at home plate.

Virtually no professional baseball players are [[homosexual]], which suggests that the repetitive playing of this sport tends to encourage heterosexual rather than homosexual proclivities.

Virtually no professional baseball players are [[homosexual]], which suggests that the repetitive playing of this sport tends to encourage heterosexual rather than homosexual proclivities.