U+26BE · emoji since 2010
The baseball stitches together game days, batting cages, and home run swings.
It's hot dogs, seventh innings, and knocking it out of the park, literally and figuratively.
In texting, ⚾ does not carry a widely used hidden or slang meaning, so you can usually take it at face value. People send it just as it looks, to add a little visual touch or set the mood of a message. Only a handful of emoji have a separate texting code, and ⚾ is not really one of them.
Its official Unicode name is the Baseball emoji. In everyday chat most people just call it the baseball emoji or describe what it shows. Copy and paste it from the button at the top of this page.
The ⚾ leads off a short phrase, and the rest of the words are written in cipher, every letter disguised as another emoji. Tap decipher to reveal the whole line.
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