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Breaking ball

Quality:

Breaking ball - baseball pitch that does not travel straight. Article “Breaking ball” in English Wikipedia has 25 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 12 references and 5 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.31 points.

This article has the best quality in Korean Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Breaking ball”, its content was written by 43 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 69 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 291 times in English Wikipedia and cited 417 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #18124 in May 2004
  • Global: #43654 in May 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #70666 in October 2015
  • Global: #126232 in October 2015

There are 4 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Korean (ko)
변화구
26.4834
2English (en)
Breaking ball
24.9713
3Chinese (zh)
變化球
8.708
4German (de)
Breaking ball
0.2331
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Breaking ball" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Breaking ball
917 527
2Korean (ko)
변화구
50 597
3Chinese (zh)
變化球
48 154
4German (de)
Breaking ball
12 751
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Breaking ball" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Breaking ball
3 987
2Korean (ko)
변화구
377
3Chinese (zh)
變化球
293
4German (de)
Breaking ball
41
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Breaking ball" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Breaking ball
43
2Korean (ko)
변화구
16
3Chinese (zh)
變化球
6
4German (de)
Breaking ball
4
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Breaking ball" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Breaking ball
0
2English (en)
Breaking ball
0
3Korean (ko)
변화구
0
4Chinese (zh)
變化球
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Breaking ball" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Breaking ball
291
2Korean (ko)
변화구
71
3Chinese (zh)
變化球
32
4German (de)
Breaking ball
23
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
deGerman
Breaking ball
enEnglish
Breaking ball
koKorean
변화구
zhChinese
變化球

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#70666
10.2015
Global:
#126232
10.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#18124
05.2004
Global:
#43654
05.2004

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Breaking ball from Wikipedia articles about Slider, Changeup, Off-speed pitch, Pitch and Spitball. Whereas reading the article about Breaking ball people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Screwball, Slider, Curveball, Glossary of baseball and Pitch.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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