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More Baseball variants. The players on the field (9x9)   LF__CF__RF
have effects according to their nonants (1/9 = 3x3).     SS__PI__2B
The positions correspond to the player-pieces            3B__CA__1B
in Carrera-like array: RNBKQCBNR.  The Rules are
anything you want, so long as availing the        Rook__Cardinal__Rook
nonants. Try it at home; or just use home         Bishop__Queen__Bishop
plate. In Baseball, rightfielder does not         Knight__King__Knight
stray from right field, firstbaseman from first base etc. In Baseball Chess, if and when they get to their ''real'' positions, or stay put there, they gain powers, super-powers at your will.  (k) On arrival at his nonent, a piece may immediately bring another friendly piece along adjacent to any vacant nonant square (called Rallying).  (l) Firstbaseman-Knight, already in his nonant gets ''Triple Play'' just by remaining there three turns. (Hey there's a lot of lollygagging in real Baseball.) Triple play requires moving any mix of enemy Pawns immediately fully three times. (m) Conflicting nonants. The main shared nonant by same player-types of both sides is Queen's central d4-d5-d6-e4-e5-e6-f4-f5-f6.  Think of it as a parity violation, or Xiangqi-like exposed file.  Upon entering her nonant, she captures the other Queen if anywhere in the nonent already.  Baseball (m-sub ii)  Pitcher-Queen arriving at her (central) nonant, called the Mound, if the other Queen situates there too, gets to ''throw a Spitter.'' Throwing a spitter means any one radial line is chosen (out of the 8) from that Queen's position, and all pieces along it are mowed down and removed (both colours). (sub iii) So tossing the spitter is  also variously known regionally as ''Rolling the Ball'' or rather illogically as ''Curving the Ball.''  'm-sub iii' here permits Rolling the Ball to remove, i.e. capture, King too, i.e. Checkmate. (Normally, opposing sides would agree on from 2 to 12 Mutators to be in effect.)