I am a huge fan of baseball.  I even played in College.
Baseball is excellent. In it, a run is scored when a player touches home plate.
This is true.  It can be traced back to when it was first mentioned in Pittsfield, Massachusetts in 1791!!
. One turn batting for each team constitutes an inning. A game is usually composed of nine innings, and the team with the greater number of runs at the end of the game wins. If scores are tied at the end of nine innings, extra innings are usually played. Baseball has no game clock, although most games end in the ninth inning.
Baseball evolved from older bat-and-ball games already being played in England by the mid-18th century. This game was brought by immigrants to North America,
History of baseball in the United States
The history of baseball in the United States can be traced to the 19th century, when amateurs played a baseball-like game by their own informal rules using homemade equipment. The popularity of the sport inspired the semi-pro national baseball clubs in the 1860s.
Early history.
The earliest mention of baseball in the U.S was a 1791 Pittsfield, Massachusetts, ordinance banning the playing of baseball within of the town meeting house. In 1903, the British sportswriter Henry Chadwick published