Baseball has a long tradition in the United States. The most popular baseball league in the U.S. is
Major League Baseball (MLB). Due to its 162-game schedule, it attracts more ticket sales than any other professional sports league in the world. Teams play almost every day from April to October. The
World Series is the championship series of Major League Baseball, the culmination of the sport's postseason each October. It is played between the winner of each of the two leagues, the
American League and the
National League, and the winner is determined through a best-of-seven playoff.
Notable American baseball players in history include
Babe Ruth,
Joe DiMaggio,
Lou Gehrig,
Hank Greenberg,
Sandy Koufax,
Willie Mays,
Al Kaline,
Stan Musial,
Pete Rose,
Hank Aaron,
Nolan Ryan,
Mike Schmidt,
Honus Wagner,
Ted Williams,
Mickey Mantle, and
Jackie Robinson, who was instrumental in dissolving the
color line and allowing
African-Americans into the major leagues. Today, some of the notable American players include
Derek Jeter,
Josh Hamilton,
Ryan Braun,
Chase Utley,
Joe Mauer,
Roy Halladay,
Alex Rodriguez,
Carl Crawford,
Tim Lincecum,
Miguel Cabrera,
Manny Ramirez, and
Albert Pujols.
Baseball and the variant,
softball, are also popular participatory sports in the U.S. However, unlike American football, baseball is also popular in many other countries, notably Japan, South Korea,
Taiwan, and Latin American countries such as the
Dominican Republic,
Cuba,
Puerto Rico, Mexico, and
Venezuela.
These countries are represented well in Major League Baseball today by players such as
Hideki Matsui,
Magglio Ordóñez,
David Ortiz,
Albert Pujols (born in the Dominican Republic, but developed in the U.S. and a naturalized American),
Iván Rodríguez,
Johan Santana, and
Ichiro Suzuki. Canada, where baseball developed in tandem with the U.S., is also well represented in MLB with players such as past greats
Ferguson Jenkins and
Larry Walker and current stars
Jason Bay,
Russell Martin,
Justin Morneau, and
Joey Votto.
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