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Originally Posted by Locke
I'm certain there is more to it because Baseball is a huge sport in South America in general, but that fever was introduced via exposure and then the local populace adored it, adopted it and its popularity clearly soared from there.
Look at how many South American and Japanese players are in the MLB. Its not a coincidence.
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The South America part isn't true at all.
With the exception of Venezuela and a small smattering of players from Colombia, the remaining 90% of the continent has almost no interest in baseball. I doubt if there are even a combined handful of MLB players from Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Paraguay or Uruguay, and that's a pretty vast chunk of the continent.
It's a real stretch to make a statement that baseball is a "huge sport in South America in general".