"Base ball", (2)

[Joel S. Berson]

The OED says for "baseball":

"The national field-game of the United States, a more elaborate
variety of the English 'rounders,' played by two sides of nine each;
so called from the 'bases' or bounds (usually four in number) which
mark the circuit to be taken by each player of the in-side after
striking the ball."

"Bounds"?  "Usually" four?  The "in-side"?  Does the definition need rewording?

Joel

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