Why was it just cardiff , Newport and Liverpool that were big on baseball
Bristol , Swansea , Southampton etc .....all ports
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Why was it just cardiff , Newport and Liverpool that were big on baseball
Bristol , Swansea , Southampton etc .....all ports
I think that it was a game brought over by Irish Immigrants, it was certainly a game encouraged in Catholic Schools in Cardiff. Plenty came to Cardiff, Liverpool and Newport i suppose. I'm not certain, but i think that the roots of the game started with Irish Diaspora.Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
from sometime around 1892 to around the 1930;s baseball was also played in the glasgow areas , bristol areas , Gloucester / Malvern areas too
Remember speaking to Ken Hollyman in the late 80's who i mentioned on another thread last week telling me about the Bristol and Gloucester areas playing the game before the war but was surprised to hear the Glasgow areas played it too many moons ago
Remember watching Caerau play Llanrumney (think it was Llanrumney) in a final back in the day. Caerau had 2 men left into bat. Dubba Richards had only made it to base 1, so the last man had to get him home. The last batsman connected with the ball and it went straight upwards into the air. As quick as a flash, Dubba ran straight from base one to base 4 and home.
The Llanrumney boys were going mental but the umpire hadn’t seen it as he was looking upwards at the ball 😂😂
So it wasn't American GIs settling in the docklands of Cardiff, Liverpool etc that brought it then ?
Why would the immigration of the Irish bring baseball ?
Shinty , gaelic football but baseball ?
And if it was predominantly Liverpool, Cardiff and Newport that provided players why not cities with even bigger Irish immigration ......Leeds, Birmingham , Coventry etc ?
It's certainly an interesting subject
I said that i wasn't sure, but anecdotally i have heard that the irish played rounders, and that's pretty much like Baseball. There was also American Baseball tours during the early 20s, it might have something to do with that.
Why were they going mental , what dubba did was ok wasn't it ?
No, he ran from base 1 to base 4, meaning he missed 2 and 3.
It would have been ok if he’d run past base 2 and base 3 😂
Ah I thought that's what he did
That's not what I got , I thought he run 1 , 2 , 3 then 4
I bet they were!!
I'm surprised Dubba got from 1 to 4 that quickly!
I played for Fitzalan around ‘76,’77. Until my schooling became approved
I remember Mostyn had a very tasty bowler.
Didn’t realise it wasn’t played everywhere, really good fun.
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