Quote Originally Posted by Tuerto View Post
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.
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