Baseball

Baseball in World War
Baseball is a sport most popular in the United States but also played in Japan and several territories ruled by the Race. Sam Yeager began his career as a baseball player and was playing for the Decatur Commodores when the Race invaded Earth in 1942. Later, as guard for Lizard POWs Ullhass and Ristin, he taught his two charges to play baseball.

Ullhass and Ristin were not the only members of the Race to play baseball; it became fairly popular among the Race's expatriate community in the US. Lizards' skittering walking motion made them talented middle infielders, and being smaller than humans, their strike zones were correspondingly small and thus difficult to pitch into. However, the Race's musculature prevents its members from becoming power hitters.

Great baseball players include Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees and Mickey Mantle of the Kansas City Athletics.

Baseball in Southern Victory
Baseball is a sport known throughout the United States and the Confederate States but popular only in the New England region of the US. In every other region of both countries, it is not as popular as football, though baseball bats make effective weapons in street brawls and have been used in that capacity as far from Boston as California.