Stupid questions about baseball

[yakalskovich]

What does a baseball player at bat do with the actual bat when he's hit the ball and starts running? nazgulwears said 'drop it', but I can't quite imagine it. Where would he leave it? How does he recover it? Is it his own bat, or does everybody bat with the same bat?

There's a virtual baseball game in Milliways that'll start pre-threading this weekend; so far I have read up on the rules etc., but that one part still makes me wonder.

Also, can somebody recommend me a YouTube link to, let's say, ten minutes of a baseball game that's really typical and has some interesting if standard things happening in it? There is lots of baseball on YouTube, but I can't really tell what would be educational to watch.

Thanks in advance!

ETA: Which of these four icons should I use as baseball icons for Teja, in the game, and for context? I just made them myself from Corbis stock; but if there's a more iconic icon, or somebody running with a bat (see thread with i_open_doors within), I'd use that just as readily.-

Comments

[marchenland.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it's just a difference of opinion on the meaning of the term "fling," which I'd describe as less violent than "throw." :)

At any rate, they are more than dropped, since dropping it would leave it in the way. They have to angle it with some small force behind them, but obviously not so hard as to knock the ump out, much as they might wish to do so. "Tossed," perhaps, is a good word.