Are you a baseball fan? Got your cracker jacks handy and ready to root for the home team? Test how much you know about the history of America's pastime and score some serious points for your efforts. Batter up!

Baseball is already being played in England by the mid-18th century. This game was brought by immigrants to North America, where the modern version developed.

A professional baseball game consists of nine innings. An inning is the basic unit of play which are composed of two parts called top-half and bottom-half. In each half, one team bats until three outs are made, with the other team playing defense.

Alexander Cartwright is also known as the "father of baseball" published the earliest known rules of baseball in the United States and were written in 1845 for a New York City "base ball" club called the "Knickerbockers".

A baseball field, also called a ball field or baseball diamond, is the field upon which the game of baseball is played. The term "sandlot" is sometimes used, although this usually refers to less organized venues for activities like sandlot ball.

The fastball is the most common pitch in baseball, and most pitchers have some form of a fastball in their arsenal. It is basically a pitch thrown very fast, generally as hard as a given pitcher can throw while maintaining control.

Each position in baseball has an associated number for use in score keeping by the official scorer, 1 - pitcher, 2 - catcher, 3 - first baseman, 4 - second baseman, 5 third baseman, 6 - shortstop, 7 - left fielder, 8 - center fielder, and 9 - right fielder.

According to the Coaching Kids, "Double" is the term used when a batter hits the ball and reached the second base. Doubles are sometimes referred to as a two bagger.

Major League Baseball (MLB) was formed in 1903 with the merger of National League (LB) and the American League (AL). The two leagues engaged in what was known as the "baseball war".

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is located in Cooperstown, New York. The Hall of Fame was established in 1939 by Stephen Carlton Clark, an heir to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune.

According to ESPN, Deion Sanders is the only player to have appeared in a Super Bowl and World Series. He was born Aug. 9, 1967, in Fort Myers, Florida. By the time he was eight, he was playing organized baseball and football.