British Expatriate Network

Was anyone like me in England, and like when you come to talk about your fascination of baseball did someone laugh and kind of tell you that it was "just like that girls game, rounders!!"
well I suppose when you look at the 2 games they are alike in some ways and now when I say to my friends and family that we have a game which is very similar to baseball but predominately played by girls,(!!) they get all protective and patriotic about baseball!!
Apparently, rounders dates back to tudor times!! So there you have it!! Baseball, is it rounders in disguise or not?!!

All my regards
Alan

I've had the same astonished looks as you when I made the very same comments on it being a girls game in England!
I learned to hold my tongue though, (not an easy feat for me!) when I discovered how revered baseball was here.
I didn't realise rounders dated back that far and as to which came first it's difficult to say. I was informed that the Native Americans invented baseball, and if that's correct, (I don't know for sure that it is) then it too could go back centuries!

Yes.

http//baseball1.com/bb-data/e-hist-1.html

I always found rounders far more fun when I was younger because only a few of the bigger kids could actually come anywhere close to hitting the ball in baseball.

Baseball has never really struck me as that exciting.

I went past SafeCo field on Tuesday, on my way back from Seattle - it's huge and they are building a new stadium for the Seahawks next door.

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Actually the 'home plate' in baseball is shaped the way it is due to the English game of rounders.

I read that at the Bank One Ball Park here in Phoenix, home of the world chammpion Arizona Diamondbacks!!! ( see other post)

Chris