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| championship | a contest to decide a winnera contest (game) to decide a winner |
| record | a measurement of an event or achievement that has never been exceeded (No one else has ever done better.) |
| Japan | an island nation east of China in the Pacific Ocean |
| season | a certain time of the year when something usually happens, such as a sport being played or a type of weather taking place |
| all-star | made up of the best athletes, performers, or participants |
| rookie | a person who is playing his or her first year in a sports league |
| practice | to do something over and over again, often for the purpose of getting better at it |
| baseball | a game played between two teams with a bat and ball on a field |
| museum | a building used to store and show things that are important to history, science, or art |
| batting average | a measure of the batting ability of a player, obtained by dividing the number of base hits by the number of official times at bat and carrying out the result to three decimal places. A player with 100 base hits in 300 times at bat has a batting average of 0.333 |
| single or base hit | lets a batter reach first base safely |
| league | a group of sports teams that regularly play one another |
| inning | a division of a baseball game consisting of a turn at bat for each team |
| ball | any pitch that is outside the strike zone and the hitter doesn't swing |
| strike zone | the area between the bottom of the batter's knees and mid-chest level |
