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Posted: Monday Nov 19, 2007 9:20 am
by Kevnlis
Do they have baseball here? I did not know that. You guys any good at it?
Posted: Monday Nov 19, 2007 10:09 am
by Chris
Yep. Baseball's been here for a long time. Australia just came 6th at te World Cup, and we have lots of pro players in the US.
We also won the silver medal at Athens.
Posted: Monday Nov 19, 2007 8:30 pm
by bottle top
Did you know that the record attendance for a baseball game was in Australia? They got over 100k people to an exhibition match at the MCG in 1956.
Posted: Monday Nov 19, 2007 8:51 pm
by Chris
Sure did. Melbourne Olympics from memory. I'd love to have seen baseball on the MCG.
Posted: Monday Nov 19, 2007 9:25 pm
by Iron-Haggis
Back in the day Australian cricketers used to play baseball in the off season. Most slower balls bowled in cricket today came from baseball.
Posted: Tuesday Nov 20, 2007 6:47 am
by Chris
I thought that cricketers played AFL in the off-season?
Either way, a lot of top crickets did come from baseball- Alan Border springs to mind.
Posted: Wednesday Nov 21, 2007 10:01 pm
by Iron-Haggis
All the ones that got injured played AFL. Before professionalism so many promising cricketers careers were ended by getting injured playing AFL.