How Britain Embraced Baseball Fever

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Baseball and Britishness don’t really go together. But is that really true?
After all, there was once a great boom in baseball in the United Kingdom. Great Britain were even its first world champions.
This is the story of when Britain got baseball fever.
Seb Stafford-Bloor explains. Illustrated by Philippe Fenner.
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@jkbuckeye1 4 месяца назад

It might be worth mentioning that Team Great Britain did well enough in the last WBC to qualify for the next one!

@thesmithersy 4 месяца назад

Gave the Yanks a bit of a scare too

@anthonyjudeaggabao2302 4 месяца назад

Baseball is the perfect sport in an era where the stats and the numbers are more important than the actual game because the numbers almost always translates into a win. There’s even media about that like Moneyball. Imagine those football accounts spamming social media about xG every talk about batting averages and ERAs.

@HipkissDesign 4 месяца назад

You're completely right of course but I think this is kind of sad. Takes a lot of the heart out of the game. Don't get me wrong, I'm a numbers guy, but there are some areas of life that I'd prefer statisticians leave alone.

@wussup12345 4 месяца назад

@@HipkissDesignexcept baseball has always been about the numbers and the stats, for decades now. Baseball trading cards, which have always been immensely popular, have always had the player’s stats and numbers on the back of their respective cards. It’s another part of what makes baseball unique to other sports

@tubbyidk1474 3 месяца назад

lol Statcast xBA and xERA

@JuanNunez2023 4 месяца назад

Fun Fact: The score keeping system that baseball uses was invented by an English man, Henry Chadwick.

@MonkeyFace2421 4 месяца назад

Ya he was a massive figure in early baseball and made a lot of things for the sport including many stats

@nabhannbn 4 месяца назад

Another fun fact: baseball invented by British

@scygnius 4 месяца назад

Better fact: England has never won an NL pennant

@chadchadderton 4 месяца назад

@@nabhannbn Sort of, but not quite. Baseball evolved from multiple sports, one of which was indeed the British sport rounders.

@tudormiller887 4 месяца назад

Anybody going to the MLB London Series this weekend ? Go Cubs Go!🐻⚾🇬🇧

@maxscameraguy 4 месяца назад

At least the Mets won something

@bennyayaya 4 месяца назад

Fun fact: baseball has been played outside the United States since the Expos joined the league

@fortunatejeremy 3 месяца назад

Baseball has been played in Japan since the late 19th century.

@user-ei7ed6zy9k 4 месяца назад

I've played and watched cricket. Now as an adult, baseball is more interesting imo even though i only started paying attention a few years ago

@nat_penrose 3 месяца назад

It's so funny seeing Americans say the reverse about cricket. The grass is always greener I suppose.

@BenBebbington 4 месяца назад

Baseball in England would be like, well, an international Test Match between Canada and the US

@dickoon 4 месяца назад

I see what you did there!

@pjkerrigan20 4 месяца назад

I’d watch an English baseball game or an American cricket match any day to be fair. International sports crossover is awesome, that’s how association football became the world game we have today. Baseball’s already incredibly popular in the US, Japan, Central America, Korea, and the Caribbean, I’d love to see it grow in Europe too! There’s always room for more sports I think

@jackburke2562 4 месяца назад

@@pjkerrigan20 Funny you mention it - the US is currently co-hosting the T20 cricket world cup. They played the opening match the other day, beating Canada thanks to some incredible batting.

@sophiefortnite1869 4 месяца назад

They've started an American cricket league relatively recently

@oliverqueen5883 4 месяца назад

@@pjkerrigan20Mate the opener of the T20 World Cup (with the USA as co-hosts) was the USA vs Canada 😂😂

@jediknight5600 Месяц назад

Im from London, and i got into baseball in the late 80s and early 90s as i have family in Toronto. I adopted the Blue Jays as my team, and have loved the game ever since.

@damianstarr1696 4 месяца назад

Basing the popularity of a sport in a country’s ability to sell ~60,000 tickets for a once in an ‘x’ number of years event is dumb. In a country of 65m people (and easy access to mainland Europe) it would be hard NOT to sell out these touring events. I quite like baseball. I don’t really understand the nuances of it all and don’t go out of my way to watch it now but when I did an exchange semester in Canada I found myself getting into it when people were watching it in the halls lounge

@hifijohn 3 месяца назад

I agree, filling up a stadium once a year is nothing, do it once a day and now you have something. Plus I think most of the people showing up are Americans.

@thomasclark3332 4 месяца назад

To say baseball is a minor sport in the UK, is an understatement lol. Very interesting video, but it's like covering cricket in America, a bit irrelevant

@zenokada2278 4 месяца назад

Cricket in America is even bigger We have one dedicated baseball field

@deepvoicedude4749 4 месяца назад

I think you mean overstatement.

@SBmasta441 4 месяца назад

@@deepvoicedude4749 No, understatement is right. Saying minor sport does not fully convey just how minor it is. Nobody in the UK cares about baseball.

@luthermanhole8666 4 месяца назад

@@zenokada2278 cricket in america is no sense "big" lmao. definitely not in the top 10 most popular sports, probably not even in the top 20. And maybe I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure there's never been a single cricket match in the US that's sold close to 60k tickets

@zenokada2278 4 месяца назад

@@luthermanhole8666 agreed No one plays cricket in America minus a few expats But it’s still bigger than baseball in Britain That’s the extent to which baseball is tiny Like I said there’s one dedicated baseball pitch in Britain

@eleazarloyo8473 4 месяца назад

5:39 The Amateur World Series is the predecessor of the World Baseball Classic, but it is not the same tournament. The first edition of the Word Baseball Classic (the baseball equivalent of the FIFA World Cup) was in 2006. The Amateur World Series (later named the Baseball World Cup) started in 1938 and ceased in 2011. When it comes to baseball, think of the Amateur World Series/Baseball World Cup as the Olympic games in football from the 1900s to the 1920s.

@thesmithersy 4 месяца назад

Even the WBC recognise GB as the first ever world champions of baseball.

@stevenrose86 4 месяца назад

FYI, Derby is pronounced "darby"

@malibongwe93 4 месяца назад

Not in American English. They don't call it the Kentucky "Darby"

@tempestwolf-i7g 4 месяца назад

British word british pronounciation.@@malibongwe93

@malibongwe93 4 месяца назад

@@tempestwolf-i7g English does not belong to Britain anymore. Britain got spanked and kicked out of all it's colonies, and so countries can do whatever they want with the English language. There's nothing you can do about it except cry in YT comments

@tempestwolf-i7g 4 месяца назад

@@malibongwe93 Um....what? First of all the creator of the language DECIDES the rules of the language. Secondly, britain only ever lost 2 colonies by force. Jamestown and the 13 colonies-the later of which was spent fighting 3 COLONIAL EMPIRES. The rest the british voluntatily gaveup after ww2. Its called decolonisation.

@tempestwolf-i7g 4 месяца назад

@@malibongwe93 U yanks are so proud that u had to ask daddy france for help. Imagine relying on frog eaters. Also how tf is losing colonies linked to language...

@gaijinshogun7011 4 месяца назад

Baseball is referenced in England pre American Revolution. So the Brits also invented that sport too.

@17Trees33 4 месяца назад

he said that at the beginning of the video.

@TheStubertos 4 месяца назад

"Won by the London Mets, from HarinGAY" Haha I love US prononciation of UK places.

@Dench999or911 4 месяца назад

I was a that first game at London Stadium, game went on for over 4 hours!

@EverettBurger 4 месяца назад

Baseball evolved from Rounders, an English game

@17Trees33 4 месяца назад

he said this at the beginning of the video.

@lorcancarbin5745 4 месяца назад

It can be argued that baseball came to America and then Britain from Irish immigrants playing GAA Rounders, which was officially recognised as one of the four Gaelic sports in the Gaelic Athletic Association Charter of 1884. The early professional days of baseball had a vast majority Irish born players or 2nd Generation Immigrant Irish born in the USA.

@oliverqueen5883 4 месяца назад

That’s so sad, why did we do that when cricket is so much better 😭😭. Yet another example of us Irish carrying the Americans though 😂

@lorcancarbin5745 4 месяца назад

@oliverqueen5883 Well, there were two different types of baseball being played in 1800s America. The Masachusets Rules were similar to English Rounders/Cricket, where the bases were in the middle of the field and a 360• area of fair ground. The New York Rules were played in the city in lots that were usually square or rectangular in shape. They played out the way from one corner and created the diamond shape infield we see today with a foul ball area.

@fr2ncm9 4 месяца назад

Well, I'm happy to hear that one Mets team is good.

@haruspex1-50 4 месяца назад

I love baseball. The Bigs 2 got me into it when I was a kid

@MrMuppetLover 3 месяца назад

Baseball and cricket are pretty similar, so it’s no surprise to me.

@domenstrmsek5625 4 месяца назад

Interested please create how Baseball beat cricket in canada and USA? Also history of baseball in Europe ?

@1200hobos 3 месяца назад

How they embraced it? Maybe attending some games and putting on the stupid cap.This is why people hate RU-vid.

@INFINITY-oe4is 4 месяца назад

As a Brit the last time I played Baseball was in WII Sports! I did find the Aston Villa Baseball club interesting as I support the football club!

@khaikhuc1432 4 месяца назад

Fyi some Dutch clubs like PSV still have a baseball side with them. Even Johan Cruyff was reportedly good as a catcher when Ajax Honkbal was still a thing.

@TylerAven10 4 месяца назад

Surely Tifo of all companies would understand the importance proper pronunciation of English football clubs has on credibility. You can’t just botch Tottenham with an American accent and expect to be taken seriously and I say this as an American.

@ababilashari9970 4 месяца назад

Ok anglophile

@danielwarren3138 3 месяца назад

Have they??? I've been into Baseball since the mid 2000s and have consistently felt like just about the only fan in the entire country. No idea who the people are going to the games at West Ham's ground, certainly not me - probably American expats.

@khaikhuc1432 4 месяца назад

Weird how international baseball was considered amateur and segregated to an amateur player pool by Americans and Japanese, which ultimately proved to be a shot in the foot as the game stagnated in worldwide popularity as a result.

@nope2dat 3 месяца назад

Restricting full membership to the icc hasn’t stopped cricket.

@khaikhuc1432 3 месяца назад

@@nope2dat please elaborate

@runrafarunthebestintheworld 4 месяца назад

It's still sad that UK and Europe in general doesn't have enough room for proper Baseball stadium. I also kind of want to see Baseball be played in Australia's cricket ground. 😅

@tino6440 4 месяца назад

They've played mlb games at the scg

@timv17 3 месяца назад

The Netherlands, Germany and Italy have a couple of stadiums that are expandable and fit for an MLB game. Baseball's way bigger in those countries too so I still don't understand why MLB is constantly going to London (or Paris before they pulled out). Probably because Europe = London to Americans.

@stackhat8624 7 дней назад

MCG hosted a baseball game in the 1956 that for years afterwards held the record as the highest baseball attendance.

@outerheaven8797 3 месяца назад

How to pronounce English football teams like a native speaker...a) Arsenal.. mostly Arsnul, sometimes you hear 3 syllable Ar-sen-al if it sounds better in a chant... b) Tottenham.. Tottnum.. c) Derby.. Darby

@garfieldcones 4 месяца назад

"MLB regular season games being played outside the united states is nothing new. Actually since 1996 games have been stages all over the world" - so Canada doesn't exist?

@paddy1198 4 месяца назад

i for one enjoy baseball

@stackhat8624 7 дней назад

4:00 back in the time this video talks about cricket was vastly more popular than rugby and rivaled football as the most popular game. the overlap between cricket and football fans in this time was large. Cricket is still more popular than rugby in many parts of the north where rugby league has its support.

@keithevans78 4 месяца назад

Totten-Ham, Durrrby County…ugh

@raycasta10 4 месяца назад

chill now dont be mean to ur step cousins

@malibongwe93 4 месяца назад

Ikr, it's almost as if different countries have different accents

@danpreston564 4 месяца назад

@@malibongwe93that’s not about accents.

@rdalybread 4 месяца назад

@@raycasta10 i’m not even related to whose who or whichever cousin it is, heck i’m not even full caucasian but i’m still appalled how they pronounce it. it’s Totten’em and Darrby for f sake.

@celtic69 3 месяца назад

@@malibongwe93mispronouncing place names has nothing to do with accents, it’s just a lazy narrator/editor, these things should be checked.

@kicka11 4 месяца назад

Answer: it didn’t.

@BienSwinginbase 4 месяца назад

I didn't know Baseball was popular and still goated in the UK.

@drewswallow6043 4 месяца назад

I’m going to the London series this week. Go Mets

@joblaaa 4 месяца назад

Go Phils

@jonathanmantle2364 4 месяца назад

Cardiff still has its baseball teams.

@russelljones2281 4 месяца назад

Football (not soccer) is way more popular in UK than baseball

@wilkesmcdermid7906 4 месяца назад

In the UK its illegal to not be a football(Soccer) fan. British people hate anything that doesnt come from the UK.

@sdeepj 3 месяца назад

If you’re so adamant that we only call association football “football”, then tell rugby clubs to stop having FC in their name. Tell the governing bodies of rugby, the Rugby Football Union and Rugby League Football, to change their names

@ibs3036 4 месяца назад

Hi Tempest

@thesmithersy 4 месяца назад

You forget to mention one thing. The UK invented baseball too. ;)

@callums3172 4 месяца назад

I’m from England and literally nobody talks about baseball, nfl and basketball yes people talk about them I have friends that love them but baseball is one sport that never gets talked about although I do think id enjoy going to a game if I ever went to the states on holiday

@diegomeredith-marquez929 4 месяца назад

It's a sport that's definitely better to experience in-person than on TV, in my opinion. As an American, I feel similarly about football/soccer, too.

@d.b.cooper1 4 месяца назад

Glorified game of rounders

@fioredeutchmark 4 месяца назад

I can’t believe you wasted your last couple of brain cells typing out someone so inane.

@nicholasregan6526 20 часов назад

Glorified troll comment LOL

@robinchase2141 4 месяца назад

I'd be curious to find out what the French think of baseball? If Montreal ever got a team back, getting the rights to broadcast in French, to French speaking countries would really help out the future Expos. It might even be a condition of them getting a team again. If MLB wants to go international, putting a team back in Montreal makes sense.

@wilkesmcdermid7906 4 месяца назад

Montreal is also important to baseball as well. I believe Montreal had the first racially integrated baseball team.

@robinchase2141 4 месяца назад

@@wilkesmcdermid7906 Yes, that's right. Jackie Robinson first played for Montreal for a year, which was the Dodgers AAA team, before moving on to Brooklyn.

@fbiopenup6534 4 месяца назад

Yeah, no. American football and basketball are probably bigger here, than baseball ever will be.

@WalesTheTrueBritons 4 месяца назад

Wrong flag! The Union flag represents the Anglo and Scoti. Not Briton!

@nope2dat 3 месяца назад

Yeah totally 😂

@oliverqueen5883 4 месяца назад

We have cricket why would we play baseball

@fnansjy456 2 месяца назад

Your profile picture doesn't fit

@stackhat8624 7 дней назад

@@fnansjy456 Ireland has a cricket team.

@fnansjy456 7 дней назад

@@stackhat8624 I know his comment is about Britain

@guywilcox389 4 месяца назад

Don't go together? We invented it! Fair enough, you came up with the modern rules, but it was a sport taken to North America by British and Irish immigrants.

@brandomcastor2951 4 месяца назад

Baseball fun to play boring to watch

@alexandersims2683 4 месяца назад

I don't know anyone who likes baseball..

@offbrandsoup2579 4 месяца назад

Up the Villa 😈

@MCFCJake 4 месяца назад

Baseball is like a poor man's cricket.

@waifubreaks1572 4 месяца назад

If that's the case, then why do baseball players make much more money?

@outerheaven8797 3 месяца назад

@waifubreaks1572 He just means he prefers cricket to baseball.. he thinks one game is poor in comparison to the other one. Not literally cricketers are paid more than baseball stars, so players salaries probably not relevant.