Baseball emoji meaning

The baseball emoji is a depiction of a traditional white baseball. It has a round shape with a red stitching running around its circumference. It is usually shown as if it is waiting to be hit or caught, and it can be used to indicate a baseball game, or an interest in baseball. It could also be used as a metaphor for something being hit or caught, something that is round and simple to understand.

The baseball emoji was approved in Unicode 5.2 and added in Emoji 1.0, see related proposal L2/09026L2/07257