Although no other game is exactly like baseball, perhaps the one most nearly like it is the English game of cricket. In baseball there are nine players on each side. The two teams alternate at bat and in the field . Each pair of turns at bat is called an inning . There are nine innings in each game.
Not only is baseball played by professional teams but by children in their neighbourhoods and by high school and college teams in the spring. It is also played by adults as amateurs. On a fine summer evening there are probably more than 20, 000 games of baseball being played throughout the country. For amateurs it is perhaps Americas most popular game; professionally it is rivalled only by football.
Basketball is the winter group sport in American schools and colleges. Like football, basketball originated in the United States and is not yet widely popular in other countries. Many Americans prefer it to football because it is a faster game and is played indoors throughout the winter. It is a very popular game in high schools, and in more than twenty states, state-wide high school, tournaments are held yearly. Professional basketball tournaments exist, but they do not attract as many fans as baseball and football games do. One basketball team that has won admiration for many years is the Harlem Golbetrotters, a black team with unusual athletic ability and a gift for making the game humorous.
Other spectator sports include wrestling, boxing, and horse racing. Although horse-racing fans call themselves sportsmen, the accuracy of the term is questionable, as only the jockeys who ride the horses in the races can be considered athletes. The so-called sportsmen are the spectators, who do not assemble primarily to see the horses race, but to bet on the outcome of each race. Gambling is the attraction in horse racing.
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