Teams should consist of nine players, however, they may play with fewer but must have a minimum of seven players to start a game. Since the pitcher is a member of the other team, there can be a ...

“Jim Creighton, a seventeen-year-old pitcher for the amateur Niagaras of Brook­lyn (all teams were amateur then), created a stir in 1858 with a pitch that was not only ... “Hitting is timing. Pitching ...