I recently came across a small, spherical object that would, to the casual observer, appear to be a baseball. However, written across its surface were the words "Texas Rangers Baseball Club". Thus, it was clearly not just a baseball, but rather a baseball club. The only possible explanation is that this is, in fact, a relic from an alternate universe, or possibly a remnant of an altered past due to meddling time travellers.

In the world from which it came, the Texas Rangers must have used such baseball clubs as their primary weapon to subdue lawbreakers. They probably beat on the perpetrators in a club-like manner, leading to the name, and held back the option to pitch the baseball club at high speed and bean people in the head for more dire emergencies, due to the risk of becoming disarmed. They likely went around wearing bandoliers full of extra baseball clubs, ready for pitching at a moment's notice, garnering them a reputation as fearsome and tireless enforcers of justice.

Of course, if the baseball club was such a dangerous weapon, no one would dream of playing with it. Instead, they probably had a sport wherein a shooter would unload his six-gun towards home plate, and a batter would try to catch the bullets by embedding them in a wooden bat. If they caught the bullet, they would then fling the bat into the air, and the other team would scramble to retrieve it for use in beating the runner into submission. Being an umpire was a very dangerous job, and required the extensive use of body armor and plexiglass shields.