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* TheSimpsons episode "Homer at the Bat" featured Homer becoming a star player on the company softball team, and Mr Burns hiring numerous Major League all-stars (including Clemens, Mattingly, Strawberry, Griffey, Garvey, Scoscia, and Sosa) to play the final game to win a bet.
** In a case of HilariousInHindsight a running gag in the episode has Burns getting mad at Mattingly for failing to cut his sideburns (even after he shaves off most of his hair). After getting cut from the team Don is heard saying "I still like him better than Steinbrener." A few weeks after the episode was produced, but before it was aired, Mattingly would be suspended from the Yankees for failing to cut his long hair as per team owner George Steinbrenner's policy.

* A short segment in ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi''. [[OrSoIHeard May be]] a bit longer in the manga and sound novels.

** In yet another episode, Bart is a player on the Isotots and Lisa is the numbers-crunching manager.

* TheSimpsons episode "Homer at the Bat" featured Homer becoming a star player on the company softball team, and Mr Burns hiring numerous Major League all-stars (including Clemens, Mattingly, Strawberry and Griffey) to play the final game to win a bet.

* TheSimpsons episode "Homer at the Bat" featured Homer becoming a star player on the company softball team, and Mr Burns hiring numerous Major League all-stars (including Clemes, Mattingly, Strawberry and Sosa) to play the final game to win a bet.

* The first episode of ''{{Clannad}} ~After Story~'' centered on the characters playing baseball.

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* And ''way way'' back in the earliest years of the FantasticFour, the issue after the storyline of the very first intoduction of the Black Panther, it opens with them playing baseball. HilarityEnsues, due to the fact that the Thing is the pitcher.

* ''{{CLAMP School Detectives}}'' features a baseball game between Nokuro and Suoh. Nokuro has a full team of girls from the CLAMP School's kindergarten division, while Suoh covers the entire field himself and uses 'Ghost Runners'.

* And then there's ''{{Futurama}}'', which has its own [[strike:baseball]] blernsball episode, "A Leela of Her Own''.

* ''SamuraiChamploo''. Keeping with the AnachronismStew theme, the protagonists, as well as some random villagers, have to play a game of baseball against American sailors.
* The ''{{FLCL}}'' episode "Full Swing".

* ''{{Samurai Champloo}}'' also had a baseball game between purported Americans (including Abner Doubleday) and a local team that includes Mugen, Jin, and Fuu. Guess who wins.

** The justification for the planet Myrg resembling 1930s New York was indeed because they had been led by Doiby Dickles. However, that has nothing to do with the baseball. Apparently the aliens that were invading Myrg simply [[AliensStealCable learned the game from Earth TV]], and found it convenient as method of {{Trial By Combat}} and began to use it on their own. ''Young Justice'' was very often someone bizarre or slapstick and this storyline pushed it even farther than usual, prompting one character to say "[[LampshadeHanging That's it, I'm joining the [Teen] Titans]]."
* ''TheIncredibleHulk'' incognito, got a gig playing outfield for a minor league team. The gig ended when he had a fight with the Rhino, who was playing catcher for a rival minor league team.

* Way back when Marvel's Avengers were only split up between East Coast and West Coast, the two teams would meet up for an annual game of baseball. One of these games was interrupted by a cosmic being called the Grandmaster, but that's a long story.

* Not to mention the annual softball game between MarvelComics and DCComics staffers.

* ''TheSimpsons'' episode "Homer at the Bat", with softball rather than baseball.

** It wasn't the actual sport that was important either, they just needed to get used to playing sports inside a dome rather then outside, do to the difference in air pressure. A baseball dorm was chosen because Hiruma had dirt on the night guards watching the place.

* Played with in ''{{Disgaea}}''. In one chapter, a bunch of rogue Prinnies challenge Laharl and company to a baseball game out in Blair Forest, but Laharl and Etna have a different game plan on their minds (i.e. "kill 'em all").

** Another episode in season 13 episode, "Bad News Bill" when Hank realizes that a little league coach's encouragement techniques actually made Bobby a better player.