Find video of actual Finnish baseball. It will bend your mind. It’s way more entertaining to watch than our baseball. First base is where our third is, second is more like our first, and third is just further out than our third.
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Find video of actual Finnish baseball. It will bend your mind. It’s way more entertaining to watch than our baseball. First base is where our third is, second is more like our first, and third is just further out than our third.
Yeah the rules are explained in the second clip by Jomboy. What a wild sport.
Completely and utterly useless waste of everyone's time and resources? Undoubtedly.
Cool? Absolutely!
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Yeah the rules are explained in the second clip by Jomboy. What a wild sport.
It’s everything our baseball isn’t. The batting team is constantly telling the runners which player has the ball is it gets tossed back and forth to cause confusion. The pitcher can balk all they want. The coach is wildly holding up this peacock like colour coded fan of signs. And then the pitching and bases are all weird for us. It’s a great sport. Hard as hell for us to play as we were always running to 2nd base.
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Hockey is just a game the way ice cream is just glucose, love is just
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It’s everything our baseball isn’t. The batting team is constantly telling the runners which player has the ball is it gets tossed back and forth to cause confusion. The pitcher can balk all they want. The coach is wildly holding up this peacock like colour coded fan of signs. And then the pitching and bases are all weird for us. It’s a great sport. Hard as hell for us to play as we were always running to 2nd base.
I love the idea that a guy watched it once, and then taught his country from memory.
I love the idea that a guy watched it once, and then taught his country from memory.
Unfortunately (and rather obviously) that's not true. Finnish baseball or "pesäpallo" is not derived from baseball, or at least not baseball alone.
Vaguely cricket-like ball-games have been played in Europe for at least 500 years, and local variants used to be common. In Finland between something like 1870's and 1900's there was a popular game/activity called "kuningaspallo" (kingball) which was one of these vaguely cricket-like games. As was typical, this game was more an activity or a children's game than a sport.
Baseball was one major influence in turning kuningaspallo into the sport now known as pesäpallo, but the creator of pesäpallo Tahko Pihkala (a distant relative of mine btw) was also studying the rules of other similar ball games, such the Swedish långball (also now mostly forgotten) for rules ideas.
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Unfortunately (and rather obviously) that's not true. Finnish baseball or "pesäpallo" is not derived from baseball, or at least not baseball alone.
Vaguely cricket-like ball-games have been played in Europe for at least 500 years, and local variants used to be common. In Finland between something like 1870's and 1900's there was a popular game/activity called "kuningaspallo" (kingball) which was one of these vaguely cricket-like games. As was typical, this game was more an activity or a children's game than a sport.
Baseball was one major influence in turning kuningaspallo into the sport now known as pesäpallo, but the creator of pesäpallo Tahko Pihkala (a distant relative of mine btw) was also studying the rules of other similar ball games, such the Swedish långball (also now mostly forgotten) for rules ideas.
I think American baseball is just based on the old English children's game of baseball or rounders going back a few hundred years anyways. Americans just Americanized it by building big stadiums, marketing the hell out of it, playing it on steroids, and calling themselves champions of the world.
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