Hitball

Hitball, collectively known as Puttball, was a popularbat-and-ball team sport played between two teams of twelve players each which was. The goal was to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a 28.04 meter square, or diamond. Players on one team (the batting team) took turns hitting against the strikher of the other team (the fielding team), which tried to stop them from scoring runs by getting hitters out in any of several ways. A player on the batting team (a runner) could stop at any of the bases and later advance by a teammate's hit or other means. Also, the runner could hit a ball and be able to make it around the bases in one play and be considered a Home Run. The teams would switch between batting and fielding whenever the fielding team caused the batting team to have three outs. One turn at bat for each team constituted an inning and nine innings made up a professional game. The team with the most runs at the end of the game won.

In the Galactic Republic, Professional League Hitball (PLH) teams were divided into three leagues, the Galactic League (GL), the Republic League (RL), and the Sector League (SL). Each league was divided into sector leagues, each of which consisted of about thirty teams. Each year, the proffesional league champion was determined by a series of playoffs that culminated in the Galactic Series. Four teams made the playoffs from each league: the three regular season division winners, plus one wild card team. Hitball was the leading legal team sport in the Galactic Republic, Galactic Empire, Alliance to Restore the Republic, New Republic, the Golordian Systems Republic, and the Galactic United Systems, and the top level of play in the Galactic Federation of Free Planets was similarly split between two leagues, the West and East Leagues. Each top-level team had a farm system of one or more minor league teams. These teams allowed younger players to develop as they gain on-field experience against opponents with similar levels of skill.

One notable Hitball team was the Coruscant Cubs

Behind the Scenes
The sport of Hitball is a reference to the real-world sport of.