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Khergit Deserters
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Posted - 2013.07.26 18:49:00 -
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Oh come on. Now BBC is trying to claim that baseball was invented in the U.K. Everybody knows that the U.S. civil war general Abner Doubleday invented baseball. Just give it a rest guys, will you? 
Baseball: Prince of Wales played 'first' game in Surrey |
Khergit Deserters
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Posted - 2013.07.26 20:53:00 -
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(After some intensive research (in Wikipedia) on rounders) Yes, it does appear that rounders is a corrupted version of the American game of baseball. Interesting. I wonder how that crossed over the pond from the U.S. to the U.K.? |
Khergit Deserters
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Posted - 2013.07.26 21:03:00 -
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Kirjava wrote:Not exactly, the American colonies were integrally as British as Scotland, Wales, Ireland and England. Also demographically The whole country has around 8 million people at the time, around 2.5 million of them in the 13 colonies. Baseball was a sport developed before independence and probably before the Mayflower, hence so much British culture from before 1774 is the same on both sides. We're all speaking English for one, there's nothing wrong with it we are up until very recently in the grand scheme the same nation spread over the Atlantic 
Yes. I'm reading a book about guerillas and counterinsurgency atm. It says that during the American Revolution, the British army considered the colonials as still "British," so they were pretty lenient with captured guerillas. Actually it seems the colonials considered themselves British too, and not yet "Americans." Most of them had no problem with Britain itself, they just didn't like the government's policies.
Hope the above lack of controversy or humor doesn't kill the thread. Flame on! |
Khergit Deserters
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Posted - 2013.07.31 20:13:00 -
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OK, so America didn't invent baseball after all. But we invented minor league baseball mascots. My favorite is Ballapeno for the San Antonio Missions. Looks like he's have a googly eyes equipment fail. Click around some of the other leagues for some equally cheap and weird characters. Barley in the Northwest League might be a disguised Cthulhu. |
Khergit Deserters
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Posted - 2013.08.03 16:29:00 -
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jason hill wrote:Hrothgar Nilsson wrote:CCP Falcon wrote:This is where baseball's roots are.The US did technically invent Baseball, but it's a spin off from a game that's been played in the UK for centuries which leads to a lot of arguments. The vast majority of sports that exist in the USA are the same as the foundations of it's culture; an amalgamation of ideas from many countries brought over when the US was colonized by Europe. I think the only sport that's really "truly" american is stock car racing, which evolved from people illegally running hooch across state lines in cars modified specifically to do so. Basketball and volleyball are independently developed American sports. meh ...the only decent game the yanks have created ...is wimmins beach volleyball   not that I`m a pervy or anything 
Women's beach volleyball is the only Olympic sport. At least, if you watch American network TV coverage of the summer Olympics, that's all you see.  |
Khergit Deserters
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Posted - 2013.08.09 00:28:00 -
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Kirjava wrote:Astenion wrote:Who gives a ****?
INB4 some waspish Brit jumps in with his incorrect assumption that it's the same thing as rounders.
INB4 some ignorant American says something equally stupid in retort. Way too late for the first one and this is OOPE, so the latter is considerably beneath average in probability.
Damn straight. Anyway, this is just a sister thread to the "Bored" thread elsewhere in OOPE. It's been slow, it's the summer off-season, you know. |
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