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"Baseball is a sport where people keep a lot of stats," Rawlings President Howard Keene notes. "Any time the numbers change a little, people ask why. It's happened before and it will happen again, but the baseball is probably the most consistent thing in the game."
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In Major League Baseball, games end with tie scores only in rare cases when conditions make it impossible to continue play. A tie game does not count as an official game in the standings unless it is finished later or replayed; ... individual player statistics from tie games are counted. Inclement weather may also shorten games, but at least five innings must be played for the game to be considered official; four-and-a-half innings are enough if the home team is ahead. Previously, curfews and the absence of adequate lighting caused more ties and shortened games. Also, with more modern playing surfaces better able to handle light rains, the process for calling or shortening a game due to weather has changed; it is more common than in the past to delay a game as much as 2 hours before a cancellation; also, a delay usually does not occur anymore until the rain is moderate-heavy and/or there is standing water on some part of the playing field.
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Baseball ... reshaped the nation's calendar. With the rise of industrialization, the standardized clock time of the office or factory robbed people of the earlier experience of time in its rich associations with the daylight hours, the natural rhythms of the seasons, and the traditional church calendar. Yet, for Americans, the opening of the baseball training season signaled the arrival of spring, regular-season play meant summer, and the World Series marked the arrival of fall. In the winter, baseball fans participated in “hot stove leagues,” reminiscing about past games and greats and speculating about what the next season had to offer.
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Mathewson is considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time and was one of the five original inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936. Mathewson spent 17 seasons in the big leagues, where he won a total of 373 games, the third-highest total in baseball history. He won 20 or more games in an astonishing 12 consecutive seasons and posted four 30-win seasons.
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Baseball is one of the oldest and most popular spectator sports. The game as it is known today developed during the early 1800s among children and amateur players. Today, professional baseball attracts millions of spectators to ballparks each year and entertains millions more through radio and television broadcasts.
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Baseball entered the sports tickets market in the late 19th Century, and over the generations, several heroes and dynasties have come to the forefront of the sport. Names like Ruth, Mays, Aaron and Ripken are familiar to any sports fan, and teams like the Cardinals, Yankees and Red Sox inspire either admiration or loathing in any baseball fan. If you've never seen a game live, you're missing out on true Americana.
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