baseball

Etymology

base + ball

noun

1. A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and Japan, in which the object is to strike a ball so that one of a nine-person team can run counter-clockwise among four bases, resulting in the scoring of a run. The team with the most runs after termination of play, usually nine innings, wins.
2. The ball used to play the sport of baseball.
3. A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.