At 16:57 10/21/2000 +0000, you wrote: >One thing I never understood about baseball; >Where the heck are the goals!!! > >Kristinn :) In baseball, the goal posts (uprights) are called the foul line poles, and the bar is the top of the outfield fence or wall. As in American "football", one of the objects of the game is to get the ball between the uprights and above the bar. The other objective is to travel 360 feet around a square which has safety squares at each corner. The batter is outnumbered 9:1, and if a ball is hit which fails to clear the wall but stays accessible, the nine can work together to stop the batter's (now referred to as the runner's) progress if they catch him or her between those safety zones. Should the runner run that gauntlet successfully and get all the way around the square, the score of his team is increased by one. Many other things in the game, of course, but most Americans are quite befuddled by cricket and it's scores like 287-3. ;-} Conrad Hoffsommer - Music Technician -mailto:hoffsoco@luther.edu Luther College, 700 College Drive, Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045 Voice-(319)-387-1204 // Fax (319)-387-1076(Dept.office) Si fractum non sit noli id referice.
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