Baseball was a well-established sport even in biblical times:
Genesis 1:1 ... "In the big inning"
Genesis 24:15,16 ... "Rebekah went to the well with a pitcher"
Numbers 11:32 ... "ten homers"
Second Kings 25:16 ... "and the bases which Solomon had made"
Psalms 19:12 ... "Who can understand his errors?"
Psalms 26:1 ... "1 have trusted, therefore, I shall not slide."
Jeremiah 15:7 ... "And I will fan them"
Ezekiel 36:12 ... "Yea, I will cause men to walk"
Luke 17:17 ... "but where are the nine?"
Galatians 5:7 ... "Ye did run well"