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AllanP · Joined: 17 Jan 2008 Posts: 488 Location: Central Scotland.

As much as I respect our USA friends across the pond, I cannot for the life of me understand the hype they generate when baseball is played.

I can remember playing this game in my schooldays when it was called "rounders" and everyone then went through the motions of enjoying it, as it got us all away from the classroom for a short period of time.

Baseball, American football; hardly a worldwide sporting activity is it!
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Farrah · Joined: 18 Nov 2007 Posts: 61

Hmm, I tend to agree with you Allan. Beats me what the English see in cricket as well.

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BoB · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 12:53 am Post subject:

I agree with both of you, much as agreeing with other goes against the grain

Baseball is just Rounders for grownups

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Farrah · Joined: 18 Nov 2007 Posts: 61

Baseball is just Rounders for kids!

The only exciting thing about Rounders was when I used to play it as a Girl Guide on Leith Links. Whoever was in bat would 'accidentally' throw the bat at someone she didn't like. Great fun!

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Carol · Joined: 03 Dec 2008 Posts: 472 Location: Alba

nasty man

Lord Blackadder · Joined: 05 Dec 2008 Posts: 2953

... and you just stay where you are and haunt Perth.

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Carol · Joined: 03 Dec 2008 Posts: 472 Location: Alba

I prefer to be here spooking you

Zaf · Joined: 16 Jan 2008 Posts: 278

cant understand the passion for football either

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Perisphere · Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 5:56 am Post subject: Re: American baseball.

Farrah · Joined: 18 Nov 2007 Posts: 61

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Farrah · Joined: 18 Nov 2007 Posts: 61

Dawn raids? Ha! Don't make me laugh! The polis wouldn't dare enter the Banana Province.

And neither would I!
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Guest · Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 7:43 pm Post subject:

..especially if Maggie Mair's around

Farrah · Joined: 18 Nov 2007 Posts: 61

Who dat?

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Full Tilt Boogie · Joined: 08 Apr 2009 Posts: 125

Are we sure that Baseball is even an American game?

Baseball's UK heritage confirmed HERE

Page last updated at 10:35 GMT, Thursday, 11 September 2008 11:35 UK

Local historians in Surrey have confirmed evidence that baseball was played in the UK more than 20 years before American independence.

A diary that documents a game being played in Guildford, Surrey, in 1755 has been verified by Surrey History Centre.

The diary states they had tea after the game and also played cricket

William Bray, a Surrey diarist and historian from Shere, wrote about the game when he was still a teenager.

Major League Baseball, the governing body of the game in the US, has been informed of the discovery.

Mixed sport

Julian Pooley, Surrey History Centre manager and William Bray expert, said the diary showed the game was a well-established sport in the 18th Century and was played by men and women.

Tricia St John Barry, who owns the diary, dug out the documents last year after watching a report on BBC South Today which said the sport began in the 1790s.

Ms St John Barry remembered the old manuscript, which she had had for many years, and responded to an appeal to viewers for more information on the subject.

William Bray lived from 1736 to 1832 and worked as a solicitor, a steward of Surrey manors and a Surrey historian.

FROM THE BBC's TODAY PROGRAMME - Listen to their Discussion HERE

Mr Pooley said: "He kept lots and lots of diaries that we have in the Surrey History Centre but last year a new one was discovered in a garden shed and it contains his diary from 1754 to 1755.

"It contains a reference to him playing baseball. What intrigued me is he is playing it with a load of young ladies."

The diary states they had tea after the game on Easter Monday and also played cricket.

Kevin Sullivan, the Washington Post's London bureau correspondent and an avid Boston Red Sox fan, told BBC Radio Four's Today Programme: "It's a great American tradition to take things from other places and improve them. Listent to their Discussion HERE

"We've always known that baseball evolved - it wasn't invented like basketball."

There was a later historical reference to the game being played in England in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, written between 1797 and 1798.