Uniforms

In most cases, shirts, pants, caps, and socks are parts uniforms. All members of same team wear identical uniforms. Only their back numbers and names on back of the shirts will differ. Also, players will wear spikes and gloves of their choice. They wear spikes because it prevents you from flipping over while playing since the ground could be slippery. It is just like wearing soccer shoes when playing soccer. I guess the most favorite uniform of all people would be New York Yankee.

Gloves

There are 4 main types of gloves. The 4 types are for catcher, pitcher, infielder, and out fielders. Catchers' gloves, which are sometimes called mitts, are especially thicker than other types because they have to catch pitchers' throws, which can have speed of 100 miles or 160km per hour. If you catch the ball with that speed with other types of gloves, you would feel like as if the ball was penetrating your hand.

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Catcher's glove

Infielder's glove

Outfielder's glove

Pitcher's glove

Baseball Equipments

I will post about baseball equipments briefly. Basically, you would need a pair of spikes (baseball shoes), gloves, and uniform on your body. Usually spike shoes have 9 spikes on bottom and those are to prevent players from slipping over. You absolutely have to have your gloves on, so you wouldn't hurt yourself. If you catch a ball with glove, it hurts only a bit. However, if you don't wear it, it should really hurt. It is possible to kill somebody with just a small baseball. And, finally, uniform are for comfortable fit to body and to indicate which team you are in.

Visit this site to take a look at diverse items : http://www.baseballwarehouse.com/

WBC (World Baseball Classic)

Since I am done with posting about popular nations' in baseball, I will write shortly about tournaments. For past years, baseball was considered as one of the sport in Olympics, but it seems like baseball is not going to be part of Olympics sports anymore. Therefore, the only worldwide baseball tournament is WBC. WBC is like soccer World Cup in baseball.  Most of the countries those have strong baseball national teams compete for championship. It happens every 3 years and is hosted by MLB. Last tournament, 2009 WBC, championship was taken by Japanese.

Visit the official website of WBC : http://web.worldbaseballclassic.com/index.jsp