Baseball pocket billiards or baseball pool (sometimes, in context, referred to simply as baseball) is a pocket billiards (pool) that is loosely based on the game of baseball. The game is played on a standard pool table and suitable for multiple players. In baseball pocket billiards, many of the game's features are named after baseball terms, such as the 9 ball being named the "pitcher", the table's foot spot is "home plate", and each team or player is afforded "nine innings" to score as many "runs" as possible.[1][2][3]
The game dates back to at least 1912, when Brunswick soberly described it in a pamphlet as "the most fascinating game of the twentieth century."[1] The winner of a game is the player with the highest run tally after all players have taken nine turns "at bat".[1]
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- ^ BCA Rules Committee (November 1992). Billiards - the Official Rules and Record Book. Iowa City, Iowa: Billiard Congress of America. pp. 137–139. ISBN 1-878493-02-7.
- ^ "Baseball". Encyclopædia Britannica (online ed.). 2002. Archived from the original on August 30, 2006. Retrieved March 31, 2017.