![]() ![]() To center it is between 390 and 435 feet. In current MLB stadiums the distance from home plate to the fence at the foul line is between 302 and 355 feet. The dimensions of the outfield in Major League and all levels of baseball are not standardized. The dimensions of the three bases are 15 square inches. On each side of home plate there is a batter’s box, with is 4 feet by 6 feet. Home plate is a five sided slab of rubber, which would be 17 inches square if not for its peaked top. The rubber, on which the pitcher has to maintain contact before his throwing motion begins, is six inches front to back and two feet across. After a particularly dominant year for pitchers in 1968 (and the fact that some teams had pitcher’s mounds approaching 20 inches, in violation of the rule) MLB changed the dimensions of the pitcher’s mound, ruling it now had to be no higher than 10 inches, and actively enforcing that rule. While pitchers initially pitched off of flat ground, starting in 1903 there was a pitcher’s mound, which could be no higher than 15 inches. There has long been rumors that baseball came to 60 feet 6 inches through a clerical error, but the best evidence suggests the distance was an intentional attempt to balance the power between hitter and pitcher. In 1893, the pitching rubber was moved back to 60 feet 6 inches, where it remains today, and all the running up and throwing underhand nonsense had been eliminated. Pitchers of the day, who threw underhanded, could run up to that closest point before release as long as they began their running inside the box. In fact, the original pitcher’s mound was a large box which was 45 feet away from home plate at its closest point. The most important dimension on a baseball field after the distance between the base is the distance between the pitcher’s mound and home plate, something the Knickerbocker rules never specified. Yes, the folks in the Knickerbocker baseball club, who in 1845 started to develop the rules of modern baseball, had a thing for the number nine.īut besides the 90 feet between the bases the rest of the dimensions of a baseball field were developed post-Knickerbocker, and have with a few exceptions been more or less set for the past 120 years. There are nine players in a baseball, nine innings in a baseball game and each base is 90 feet apart. Read on to learn about the history of baseball’s dimensions, as well as Little League dimensions. Outfield dimensions are not standardized. ![]() Before getting to the article, here are the basic dimensions of a baseball field: 90 feet between the bases and 60 feet 6 inches between the pitcher’s mound and home plate. ![]()
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