What is Comparison of baseball and cricket?
[[File:Safe zones in baseball and cricket.png|thumb|425x425px|In cricket, the batting team's players stand in the green areas if they want to avoid being out when the fielding team's players [[Tag out|tag]] (touch) them with the ball, or put down the [[wicket]]. The cricket field is on the left.]] [[File:UNCbaseball.JPG|thumb|right|250px|{{Center|Baseball pitcher throwing to a batter}}]] [[File:Cricket picture.jpg|thumb|right|250px|{{Center|Cricket bowler and batsman}}]] '''Baseball and Cricket''' are two similar sports. They are both considered [[bat-and-ball games]] and are played by both men and women. But they also have many differences. They have different [[rule]]s, [[Terminology|terms]] and [[organization]]. Their [[history|histories]] are both similar yet different. == Common history == Baseball is often thought to have [[Descendant|descended]] from cricket.<ref name=Block143.5>David Block, ''Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game'' (Lincoln, NE: Bison Books, 2006), pp. 143–45</ref> They both can be traced back to [[England]]. They have common terms such as [[inning]]s, [[umpire]]s, runs and outs. So the connection seems very [[logical]].<ref name=Block143.5/> Even some baseball [[historian]]s think cricket is the [[ancestor]] of baseball.<ref name=Block143.5/> Both games do have a link, but it is not a parent-child link. It is more on the order of [[cousin]]s.<ref name=Block143.5/> Both seem to have been brought to England by people from [[Flanders]], but who settled in different parts of England. There each game developed separately.<ref name=Block143.5/> Cricket came from the [[southeast]] of England while baseball was played in [[west]]ern England. Baseball started as a children's game while Cricket was more often played by adults.<ref name=Block143.5/> Both games came to [[United States|America]] with English [[immigrant]]s. By the 1840s cricket had a following along the [[East Coast of the United States|East Coast]], particularly in [[Philadelphia]] and [[New York]]. About