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.-

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[yakalskovich]

Thanks for the info! I've already decided to let Teja run off with his bat during his first at bat, and get told off for it. It is, after all, just a spontaneous, virtual game outside the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, so I guess no personalised bats or anything overly fancy. They'll probably have two or three bats to chose from; I'll have to ask about that in the plotting post. I think Teja is going for a bat made of harder wood, because he will expect to hit hard, as a former (now dead) wielder of battle-axes.