Baseball is bucolic, agrarian, Victorian, and not a slave to a clock. Also, the person scores, not the object. It is wonderfully subject to metric and statistical analysis, can be replicated/reconstructed mentally from a box score, requires subtle and arcane strategies which take managers many years to acquire, and it will nearly always break your heart. It has a rule that reads like a poem, called the Infield Fly Rule. It also has one very bad rule called the Designated Hitter Rule, may it rot in hell.