This small cache is located at a softball field in West Springfield, Massachusetts.
"Foul Ball"
The history of baseball in the United States dates to the 18th century, when boys and amateur enthusiasts played a baseball-like game by their own informal rules using homemade equipment. The popularity of the sport grew and amateur mens' ball clubs were formed in the 1830-50s. Semi-professional baseball clubs followed in the 1860s, and the first professional leagues arrived in the post-American Civil War 1870s.
In baseball, a foul ball is a batted ball that:
• Settles on foul territory between home and first base or between home and third base, or
• Bounds past first or third base on or over foul territory, or
• First falls on foul territory beyond first or third base, or
• While on or over foul territory, touches the person of an umpire or player, or any object foreign to the natural ground. By interpretation, a batted ball that touches a batter while in his batter's box is foul regardless of whether it is over foul territory.
For more interesting facts about baseball you may refer to:. Wikipedia.org and is available in many languages.
CONGRATULATIONS TO "BBandME" FOR THE "FTF" (First To Find)! Thank you for visiting my cache. 