Most Americans enjoy sports, and baseball, basketball, and football are popular. American football is a very different game from European football; players carry the ball more than they use their feet. But the favourite sport in the USA is baseball. The film Field of Dreams tells the story of a farmer from Iowa in the mid-west, played by Kevin Costner, who dreams of the Chicago White Sox team and makes a baseball field for them in a field on his farm. Baseball is played by two teams of nine people. Each player from the first team tries to hit the ball and run round a big square from corner to corner. The players from the second team try to catch the ball. Players try to get all the way round the square before the other team can get the ball to a corner. Afrer three players go 'out', it is the turn of the second team to hit the ball. Some famous teams are the Los Angeles Dodgers, the New York Yankees, and the Boston Red Sox. Perhaps the greatest baseball player in history was Babe Ruth. He was born in 1895 and played with the Boston Red Sox and then the New York Yankees. He died in 1948 but he is still remembered today.