 This game is from long before even the movie version of Shoeless Joe Jackson walked out of that corn in Field of Dreams. If you build it, he will come. And from even before baseball was a word, it was two words back then, the adjective base preceding the noun ball. It's just a game that a lot of us can come out and have fun, you know, we're a bunch of old guys that just want to play real baseball and not play softball.