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If you look at it, it's really a square. It only looks like a diamond if you look at from directly behind home plate (or one of the other bases.)
If you want four bases all the same distance apart, that forces it to be a rhombus. But it would be weird if 3rd base was closer to 1st than 2nd is to home. So a square is the only logical choice, the four-sided regular polygon.
If we went to five-Baseball, then there might be some other options, but I bet it would end up a regular pentagon.
It also is so the distance between each base is equal.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 14y agorotate a square 45 degrees and what do you get? that's right, a diamond, and from the vantage point of the plate, you're looking at a diamond. since the plate is where it all goes down, it's logical that the term baseball diamond was chosen over baseball square.
Actualy this is not true, in baseball the field is called a diamond in error. It is in fact a square, the term diamond is falsely used to mean a rhombus - In geometry, a rhombus or rhomb is a quadrilateral whose four sides all have the same length. The rhombus is often called a diamond, after the diamonds suit in playing cards, or a lozenge, though the latter sometimes refers specifically to a rhombus with a 45° angle.
It is said that all squares are rhombuses but not all rhombuses are squares. so the term is false. Most people call it a baseball diamond when it is not, but colocaly that is what it is called so you just cant fix stupid.
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∙ 11y agoBecause the field is in the shape of a diamond
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∙ 9y agoAn infield of a baseball park is a square. It measures 90 feet on each of its four sides.
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