The NY Mets had an Irish born player in 2019. I play a sport called hurling and baseball has helped me in this sport because the way you hit the ball is similar to a self pitch in baseball.
Love your channel and how it highlights the various stages of development of America's past time outside of the States. It's really informative and interesting to see how other nations take on the sport. Would love to see you do a video on the state of baseball in the British West Indies, one of the big Cricket hot beds in the Americas, like Jamaica and Barbados and Trinidad-Tobago.
The second and third Irish players to play for New York teams were Brian and James McCann when Brian and James McCann met they were in separate cities in separate states Brian McCann (number 34)(catcher) played for the New York Yankees and then James McCann (number 34)(catcher) played for the Detroit Tigers. Brian ended his tenure with the yankees and was traded James McCann stayed in Detroit until 2019. James was traded to the Mets in the 2019 season and then just recently he was traded to the Dodgers he worn number 33 on the Mets and number 27 on the Dodgers. So this coincidence of being with the same last name same jersey number and same player role came to a splitter end after Brian McCann left and then James McCann followed a few years later it’s hard to see a triple coincidence end so suddenly but you’ll only see that once in a lifetime where the players have 3 or more coincidences like the same jersey number same player role and same last name all in one personality of each other. Brian and James McCann are indeed not related but are very coincidental with their last name being McCann having the same jersey number being number 34 and playing the same role being a catcher but for 2 different teams in two different cities/states. We will never see a coincidence of two players whom are not related again. It only happens once and then that’s it you never see it ever again. Luckily I was able to see that and now we can’t find another triple coincidence in baseball anymore so the legacy of the McCann brothers (whom are not brothers it’s said as a joke) has been burned into history for all time. James will now be soon retiring from the MLB and will join his “friend” Brian McCann in retirement. RIP to the triple coincidences of James and Brian McCann 2014-2015
I saw a U18 European Championship game a few years back in Zurich where an Irish pitcher threw a no-hitter against Russia. Unfortunately, the roster was almost completely Americans and I don't think the Irish kids even saw the field.
while we (the irish) might be a member of the cricket council, that is misleading as I as an Irish person am yet to find an Irish person who actually follows cricket, there are definitely circles who fallow it but rounders (our native bat and ball sport) is far more popular on the ground, and rounders is far more like baseball than it it is cricket. I'm not trying to bash cricket, but as a fan of both I'm just tired of people who have never been here claiming its more popular than it is. if baseball here got the funding it needed, cricket would imeditaly struggle to compete to get youth as rounders is on the youth school syllabus and as previously stated rounders is FAR more like baseball and most have a positive experience with rounders.
