Extreme Baseball, also known as Double Diamond Baseball, is a sport based on traditional
baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport, teams of nine players each, taking turns batting (baseball), batting and Fielding (baseball), fielding. The game occurs over the course of several Pitch ...
.
The main difference is that both teams are on the field at the same time.
Pitcher
In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("Pitch (baseball), pitches") the Baseball (ball), baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of out (baseball), retiring a batter (baseball), batter, ...
s from each team take turns pitching to
batters at two adjacent home plates. One team runs around the bases in the normal
counterclockwise
Two-dimensional rotation can occur in two possible directions or senses of rotation. Clockwise motion (abbreviated CW) proceeds in the same direction as a clock's hands relative to the observer: from the top to the right, then down and then to ...
direction, while the other team runs around bases in a clockwise direction.
The world premier game took place on May 5, 2007 at
Historic Sanford Memorial Stadium in
Sanford, Florida
Sanford is a city and the county seat of Seminole County, Florida, United States. It is located in Central Florida and its population was 61,051 as of the 2020 census. It is part of the Orlando–Kissimmee–Sanford Metropolitan Statistical ...
.
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Extreme Baseball was conceived and developed by Phillip Weidner. In 2006, Weidner applied for a United States patent on the extreme baseball concept and the patent was approved in February, 2010.
Extreme Baseball teams from ]Saint Petersburg, Florida
St. Petersburg is a city in Pinellas County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 258,308, making it the fifth-most populous city in Florida and the most populous city in the state that is not a county seat (the ...
, Orlando, Florida
Orlando ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Orange County, Florida, United States. The city proper had a population of 307,573 at the 2020 census, making it the fourth-most populous city in Florida behind Jacksonville, Florida, Jacksonville ...
, and Miami, Florida
Miami is a East Coast of the United States, coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade County in South Florida. It is the core of the Miami metropolitan area, which, with a populat ...
were competing as of 2007[ in the National Xtreme Baseball League. ON JUNE 13, 2008 Dannier Reyes of the National Xtreme Baseball League's Orlando Dragons made NXBL History by hitting the 1st Double Duel Semi "Grand" Slam. A Semi Grand Slam occurs in Xtreme Baseball Double Duel Mode when the bases are full on one diamond and with two base runners on the other diamond. It was just one base runner short of a Mega Grand Slam which occurs when both diamonds are full. The league ceased operations sometime during or after 2011; the league's website includes schedules up to 2011, but as of 2021 the website's front page features the statement, "The league is currently for sale and has ceased operations until a new owner is obtained."]
References
External links
National eXtreme Baseball Home Page
Baseball genres
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