Baseball
Baseball noun - A ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs.
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Cricket and baseball are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Cricket" instead a noun "Baseball".
Nearby Word: base
Cricket
Cricket noun - Leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together.
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The Cosby Show had a rare American instance of a cricket episode, when Cliff got into an argument with his West Indian friends about whether cricket or baseball was the better sport, which ended up with the three of them playing an impromptu cricket match in the living room.
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Fox, the animal school's official sport is Whackbat, an incomprehensible game similar to baseball and cricket played with a flaming pinecone.
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The big difference between baseball and cricket though is that the ball cannot be kept by a spectator and must immediately be returned; balls can be hit for six multiple times.
Source: Useful Notes / Cricket
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