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Re: Thrilling True Story of the Baseball Yankees

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The Australian Panther

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Re: Thrilling True Story of the Baseball Yankees
« on: January 19, 2021, 01:00:02 AM »

Interesting comment on the power of the Media.
I'm Australian, We play Cricket, not Baseball, at a national level. We do have social baseball clubs, but Baseball is way down the list of sports. [Although, I'm told the standard of our equivalent of 'Little League' is high enough for scouts from the US to keep their eyes on the players.]
And yet, Due to TV and Movies, the team the Yankees and the names Casey Stengel, Joe Dimaggio, Yogi Berra, and Mickey Mantle are all well-known to me.
cheers!

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Andrew999

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Re: Thrilling True Story of the Baseball Yankees
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2021, 09:15:09 AM »

Again, in the UK baseball is way down the list. We have our own version called rounders which is played at school. In Sussex, there's a folk version called stoolball:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoolball

I'd never heard of Casey but the other names ring a bell. Wasn't Joe DiMaggio married to Marilyn - and Yogi famous for his quotes 'No one goes there anymore - it's too crowded'?
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The Australian Panther

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Re: Thrilling True Story of the Baseball Yankees
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2021, 10:34:15 AM »

Yes, we played Rounders too! And Joe was married to Marilyn - and never stopped loving her apparently.
Any Yogi? Had a cartoon character named after him. D-oh?
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