Mackenzie
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No I’ve never heard of him or watched a game of baseball.
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[Other Sport] Do you know who Shohei Ohtani is?
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And I can add Joe DiMaggio and (randomly) Derek Jeter.
Actually I tell a lie - Babe Ruth
The latter because, when I was living and working in Taipei we had a couple of Americans on the project, one of whom had a 'Jeter Sucks' t-shirt that we all made fun of for obvious reasons. She was a Boston Redsox fan and he played his whole 20 year career for the Yankees.
And that is the entire sum of my baseball knowledge.
keaton
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But they would know Kohli in Pakistan and Bangladesh two other very large populations
Garry Nelson's Left Foot
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Smaller than the population of the u.s/canada and Korea though. Then you can chuck in Japan's population too.
If you take out India's population then the cricket/baseball knowing public is probably pretty even.
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Fancy calling a competition a World Series when only two countries take part
Pavilionaire
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14 years ago, Rick Ankiel of the St Louis Cardinals was the first player since Babe Ruth to have won 10 or more games in a season, and to hit 50 career home runs.
Ohtani blows those stats out of the water. Has won 10 or more games in both 2022 and 2023, while he has hit over 50 home runs THIS SEASON, and 225 in his career overall. Last month he hit .393. Just one more hit in the month would have put him above .400.
Seagull58
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It's called the World Series because it was created by a US newspaper called The World. It is their series.Fancy calling a competition a World Series when only two countries take part
Seagull58
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Hit percentage is what? Percentage of at bats getting on base?
This.
Worried Man Blues
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Joe Di Maggio via Marilyn, and Babe Ruth via the group! Never seen a game and I'll keep it that way.
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Myth apparently
Paper hasn’t existed since the early 1930s either
I’m going for Americans bigging themselves up
North of Robertsbridge
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He really is a bit special
Oops, I just noticed this was already posted on the MLB 2024 thread, sorry for the dup. But it‘s so good, I’ll leave it here
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North of Robertsbridge
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Softball is a bigger ball, pitched underarm and played mainly by girls and mixed teams
Because its the most followed sport in India, yes. Bit like how table tennis is one of the biggest sport in the worlds.. yet it isn't.
Not a lot of people outside the "Commonwealth" will know who "Ben Stokes" or "Virat Kohli" is. You're probably wrong if you think more Americans know about those people than Englishmen who know about Ohtani. Neither baseball or cricket is of any interest in Sweden but Hollywood has made MLB far more familiar than cricket will ever be here, and I imagine that goes for a lot of countries.
Greg Bobkin
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I can't believe we've got to 50+ posts without this question being asked, so...
...can he play left back?
...can he play left back?
Seagull58
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OK. You are right, although the New York World newspaper was heavily involved in promoting it in the early 1900'sMyth apparently
Paper hasn’t existed since the early 1930s either
I’m going for Americans bigging themselves up
AZ Gull
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A quick google search would suggest that baseball is the most popular sport in nine countries.
Does cricket REALLY have a much bigger geographical spread than baseball? I'm not convinced.
I, for one, have never heard of Virat Kohli (because although I used to follow cricket when I lived in the UK, since moving over here it has fallen completely off my radar).
AZ Gull
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Baseball IS a great sport.