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Batting average (baseball)
Batting average (AVG), baseball's hits divided by at-bats stat; excludes walks, HBP, sacrifices; batting title needs 502 PA; Cobb .366/.367 career, Duffy .438/.440 in 1894, last .400 was Williams .406 in 1941.
Batting average (cricket)
Batting average (cricket): runs scored divided by times dismissed, with not-out innings excluded from the denominator. Don Bradman's Test average of 99.94 is the famous benchmark; 40 is good, 50 elite in Tests.
Batting order (baseball)
Batting order (baseball): the fixed nine-hitter sequence on the lineup card, its rulebook mechanics, traditional slot roles, sabermetric optimization worth 5-15 runs, protection theory, and MLB/NPB/youth differences.
Batting order (cricket)
Batting order (cricket): the numbered sequence, 1 to 11, in which a team's batters go in, from openers facing the new ball to tailenders; includes night watchman tactics, left-right pairing debates, and mathematical order optimisation.
Battle
Battle: a general engagement between enemy armed forces, naval or military. Distinguished from a campaign, a series of battles deciding a strategic issue; governed by IHL principles of distinction, proportionality, precautions.
Battle Abbey
Battle Abbey is a ruined Benedictine monastery in Battle, East Sussex, founded by William the Conqueror on the site of his 1066 victory at Hastings.
Battle Angel (OVA)
Battle Angel (Hyper Future Vision Gunnm, 銃夢) is a 1993 two-episode OVA directed by Hiroshi Fukutomi, adapting the first two volumes of Yukito Kishiro's Gunnm manga about the cyborg Gally/Alita; never released on Japanese DVD.
Battle Angel Alita
Battle Angel Alita, originally Gunnm (銃夢) by Yukito Kishiro, is a cyberpunk manga serialized 1990-1995 in Business Jump, nine volumes, continued in Last Order and Mars Chronicle, adapted as a 1993 OVA and the 2019 film.
Battle Angel Alita: Mars Chronicle (銃夢火星戦記)
Battle Angel Alita: Mars Chronicle (銃夢火星戦記, Gunnm: Mars Chronicle) is Yukito Kishiro's third Gunnm manga, launched April 2014 as the sequel to Last Order, intercutting adult Alita's ES 594 return to Mars with Yoko's ES 373 childhood in 11 Kodansha volumes.
Battle Arena Toshinden (video game)
Battle Arena Toshinden (Toshinden) is a 1995 weapons-based 3D fighting game by Tamsoft and Takara, the first 3D one-on-one fighter on PlayStation, with eight fighters, a sidestep dodge, and an Edia revival planned for 2027.
Battle Arena Toshinden (闘神伝)
Battle Arena Toshinden (闘神伝) is a 1995 3D weapons-based fighting game by Tamsoft, published by Takara and Sony as a PlayStation launch title; it introduced the sidestep mechanic and spawned three sequels, with an Edia revival planned for 2026-2027.
Battle at Big Rock
Battle at Big Rock (2019) is a roughly 10-minute Jurassic World short film directed by Colin Trevorrow, written with Emily Carmichael, set one year after Fallen Kingdom, introducing the allosaurus and nasutoceratops and setting the tone for Dominion.
Battle axe
A battle axe, or war axe, is an axe made or adapted for combat rather than woodwork, known from Neolithic Europe, pharaonic Egypt, and Viking and medieval armies.
Battle Beast (band)
Battle Beast is a Finnish heavy/power metal band formed in Helsinki in 2008, known for seven studio albums through Steelbound (2025), four consecutive Finnish number-ones, frontwomen Nitte Valo, Noora Louhimo, and Marina La Torraca, and founding guitarist Anton Kabanen's spin-off band Beast in Black.
Battle Beasts
Battle Beasts (Beastformers, ビーストフォーマー) is Takara's 1986 anthropomorphic-animal action-figure line, distributed by Hasbro from 1987, with 76 figures plus 36 Laser Beasts and a fire-wood-water rub-sign battle game.
Battle between Lagash and Umma
The battle between Lagash and Umma, also called the battle of the Gu'edena, was a mid-25th-century BC victory of Eannatum of Lagash over neighboring Umma, commemorated on the Stele of the Vultures.
Battle between Utu-hengal and Tirigan
The battle between Utu-hengal and Tirigan was the campaign in which Utu-hegal, king of Uruk, defeated Tirigan, last king of the Gutians, in southern Mesopotamia around 2120 BC.
Battle Beyond the Stars
Battle Beyond the Stars (1980) is a Roger Corman New World Pictures space opera, a Seven Samurai/Magnificent Seven retelling directed by Jimmy T. Murakami, written by John Sayles, scored by James Horner, with James Cameron on art direction; $2 million budget, $11 million gross.
Battle Camp
Battle Camp is a 2025 Netflix reality competition series in which 18 Netflix Reality Universe alumni compete in three teams for $250,000, with eliminations decided by a spinning wheel; hosted by Taylor Lewan, cancelled after one season. Also a 2013 mobile monster-collecting MMORPG.
Battle Chess
Battle Chess: 1988 Interplay chess game (aka Battle Chess: Game of Kings remake) with animated 3D pieces and 35 combat capture sequences; 250,000 copies sold, weak engine, ported to 14+ platforms.
Battle Creek (TV series)
Battle Creek is a 2015 CBS police comedy-drama created by Vince Gilligan and David Shore, starring Josh Duhamel and Dean Winters as mismatched FBI and local lawmen in Battle Creek, Michigan; 13 episodes, canceled after one season.
Battle Creek Sanitarium
Battle Creek Sanitarium, founded 1866 as the Western Health Reform Institute in Battle Creek, Michigan, was John Harvey Kellogg's world-famous Adventist health resort; birthplace of corn flakes, later the Percy Jones Hospital and Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center.
Battle Creek, Michigan
Battle Creek, Michigan (Cereal City), largest city in Calhoun County, southwest Michigan; 2020 population 52,721; birthplace of the breakfast cereal industry via Kellogg, Post, and the Battle Creek Sanitarium; commission-manager government since 1961.
Battle cry
Battle cry: a shout soldiers give charging the enemy, or figuratively a cause's slogan. Covers Greek Alala, Roman discipline, the Rebel yell, Currahee, and scholarship on cohesion.
Battle Dress Uniform
The Battle Dress Uniform (BDU) was the camouflage field uniform of the United States Armed Forces, introduced by the Army in September 1981 and worn by every branch into the 2000s.
Battle for Caen
The Battle for Caen was a series of Allied offensives from June to August 1944 to capture the Norman city of Caen during the Battle of Normandy.
Battle for Dream Island
Battle for Dream Island (BFDI) is a YouTube animated competition series created by twin brothers Michael and Cary Huang, premiered January 1, 2010 on jacknjellify; it originated the object-show genre, uses viewer-voted eliminations, and has over 2.6 billion views.
Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two
Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two (TPOT) is the fifth season of the BFDI object-show series, split from Battle for BFDI in 2020, hosted by Two, premiering January 10, 2021, with 25 episodes by August 2026 and Webby Award recognition.
Battle for Grain
The Battle for Grain, or Battaglia del grano, was an agricultural campaign Mussolini's Fascist government proclaimed in Italy in 1925 to make the country self-sufficient in wheat.
Battle for Henderson Field
The Battle for Henderson Field, also known as the October attacks, was a 1942 land battle of the Guadalcanal campaign in which Japanese forces failed to capture Henderson Field.