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Another interesting article on the subject Note: Ruth was done as a baseballer by 1935, and still bludgeoned a cricket ball. He was just a genius at hitting things. As the article notes, however, he was very much the exception when it came to baseball players trying cricket...

Babe Ruth remains the legendary here in the U.S.—a great pitcher who transitioned into a legendary batter, and a larger-than-life character every step of the way Apparently, he was acquainted with his cricket counterpart—Don Bradman—and had a go at cricket once, enjoying it immensely but...

This one you’ve got me on.

The concept of “American exceptionalism” you reference was a big part of it (“exceptional” meaning “different,” not “best”), but not the only part. Timing had a bit to do with it. Cricket was doing quite well for itself, even after the Revolution. Indeed, during the Revolution troops at Valley...

Canada had Global T20 in 2018 and 2019. 2018 included David Warner (Winnipeg) and Steve Smith (Toronto), who needed someplace to play while suspended, I suppose. But the league was primarily Sub-Continental and West Indian (the latter’s B-team competed in the league), and fans were not impressed...

My main sport here was soccer, and I also spent a lot of time writing about its history here and such For generations, it, too, was a sport dominated by first-generation immigrants…indeed, even today has a national team featuring Mexican-Americans (or the children of servicemen overseas), with...

Yes…a lot to discuss. Let’s put it where people will look for it

The Canada vs US match in NY? I referenced that in an interview I did for a podcast on Wednesday. 10,000 people in attendance

We had snow flurries all morning, but they were unrelated to the storm that's a-coming. It looks like that starts in about an hour, and is going to dump a bunch of snow on us.

The first ever Women's Youth Internationals for Team USA results in a tightly fought 4 match series won by a 3-1 margin over Windward Islands Women's Under 19s Take note of the photos in the tweet--Team USA are all first-generation children No problems there--soccer survived on a similar...

Actually...BRONZE medalists; oddly, the Games only awarded silver to the winners (Great Britain, as respresented by the Devon & Somerset Wanderers touring club), and bronze to "France" (which was actually the French Athletic Club Union, comprised mainly British ex-pats living in Paris). It...

Thanks...probably as exciting a time for cricket as there has been in America for quite some time, with Major League Cricket on the horizon (and doing things like actually building an infrastructure, both with the already-running Minor League Cricket and converting old minor-league baseball...

Bradman! It’s like what “755” used to mean in baseball, before Bonds cheated like Smith and Warner.. 😉

“Genetically,” I keep an eye on Scotland. Practically speaking, though, I’ve taken a shine to New Zealand. It probably helps that their domestic league is the one I have easiest access to via ESPN+. The recent international against Bangladesh sealed it.

I've been told I'm the first American to register here, so it might be time for an introduction I'm a bit of a sports historian, having written extensively about U.S. pro soccer history over the years, as well as more recently getting into early pro basketball history and chronicling lost box...

Cheryl Ladd 😍 I actually bought this album, I was so smitten

Is BigFooty the same as BigSoccer? Haven’t been there in years…

Currently there are plans afoot for "Major League Cricket," slated to start in 2023. As an appetizer, the same folks ran "Minor League Cricket" in 2021, and have another season set for this year. In 2004, there was a league (imaginatively entitled "Pro Cricket") that only ran for a year before...