As nouns the difference between baseball and punchball
is that
baseball is a sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and Japan, in which the object is to strike a ball so that one of a nine-person team can run counter-clockwise among four bases, resulting in the scoring of a run. The team with the most runs after termination of play, usually nine innings, wins while
punchball is a simplified version of the sport of baseball, where players use their fists as a bat and a softer ball.