How come baseball has never caught on in the UK?
The USA have caught on to football (soccer) and even we are starting up american football, but the closest we have to baseball is rounders! Why is that?
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May 28th, 2010 at 1:10 pm
Because it’s shite, like most other sports.
May 28th, 2010 at 2:02 pm
It has, we call it rounders.
May 28th, 2010 at 2:54 pm
Because its boring, and we have cricket. Which to be fair is equally as boring lol
May 28th, 2010 at 3:31 pm
Because it’s rubbish.
May 28th, 2010 at 4:11 pm
There aren’t sufficient Americans here in the UK – it is an American sport and that’s where the obvious interest would be.
May 28th, 2010 at 4:51 pm
It just isn’t cricket.
May 28th, 2010 at 5:12 pm
we invented rounders, baseball like american football come from our sports
May 28th, 2010 at 6:06 pm
Its because we never play it at school as it is to big to play and where you can play it, its not posh enough to play like cricket or rugby.
May 28th, 2010 at 6:56 pm
Because We’ve got Cricket, which is MUCH better and is not like rounders, which is a girls game.
IF you want to play baseball, try softball or rounders or find your local baseball team and join.
There’s one in every county and it’s growing. Thy’re always looking for members.
May 28th, 2010 at 7:55 pm
Maybe cos we call it rounders & not baseball – perhaps if we actually CALLED it baseball, it might take off here too.
May 28th, 2010 at 8:23 pm
because we have Cricket instead
May 28th, 2010 at 8:49 pm
Because it’s a big steaming pile of poo.
May 28th, 2010 at 8:52 pm
whats baseball
May 28th, 2010 at 9:08 pm
Cause our summer game is cricket. far superior to baseball
May 28th, 2010 at 10:00 pm
Well we actually invented baseball, (deadly serious), and we also have another game that is more or less the same called rounders, but for some reason neither are particularly popular. Personally, I just dont find those games very interesting, especially compared to football, cricket, rugby, golf, tennis, the other sports that are popular here.
May 28th, 2010 at 10:34 pm
Who cares? Just be thankful it (and that dreadful American football thing) isn’t over here.
May 28th, 2010 at 11:03 pm
English people have infinitely better taste.
May 28th, 2010 at 11:11 pm
A diary that documents a game being played in Guildford in 1755 has been verified by Surrey History Centre. The diary states they had tea after the game on Easter Monday and also played cricket. So we used baseball has a warm up to playing the real game of cricket
May 28th, 2010 at 11:16 pm
There isn’t as much space over here in which to play it. Britain is too full of culture and historic buildings of global importance to have random fields for men in silly trousers to run around.
May 28th, 2010 at 11:32 pm
For the same reason Cricket has never caught on in the United States. It comes down to tradition and is passed on from generation to generation.
May 29th, 2010 at 12:05 am
Because the sophistication of the strategy of the game is more than the Brits can handle. Kicking a ball is about all they can deal with.
May 29th, 2010 at 12:13 am
Because REAL MEN play baseball…. In the Uk the only spots men play are one’s that require wearing a skirt,,,That’s my answer for all these ppl who insulted my country’s greatest sport! and my boys who play the game God Bless America. Tea time anyone?
May 29th, 2010 at 12:19 am
Because the UK doesn’t understand the game.
May 29th, 2010 at 12:25 am
In UK, most people are fixed to Cricket. Cricket is almost like baseball in means, so thats why u may not see baseball there.
May 29th, 2010 at 1:19 am
They have been too busy oppressing the Irish to learn anything new