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brush

(57,086 posts) Fri Aug 4, 2023, 04:00 PM Aug 2023

Attention baseball fans. The game is all the rage with kids in BHUTAN...

of all place, a Himilayan mountainous country. There's hope for the game yet.

The world's most remote country, Bhutan, is experiencing a baseball boom

What started as a handful of kids playing on a concrete slab has grown to more than 6,000 children who are becoming dedicated baseball fans

"It's the fastest-growing sport in the country right now,"

https://sports.yahoo.com/picture-kids-playing-baseball-bhutan-013047337.html

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Attention baseball fans. The game is all the rage with kids in BHUTAN... (Original Post) brush Aug 2023 OP

Great! Let's have an MLB regular season game there rsdsharp Aug 2023 #1

Maybe it'll get to that point. They'll have to build a field. brush Aug 2023 #2

Interesting Connection ProfessorGAC Aug 2023 #3

We need another "Lefty" O'Doul to get them going in the right direction Brother Buzz Aug 2023 #4

rsdsharp

(10,053 posts)

1. Great! Let's have an MLB regular season game there

Reply to brush (Original post)

Fri Aug 4, 2023, 04:21 PM

Aug 2023

It makes as much sense as London.

brush

(57,086 posts)

2. Maybe it'll get to that point. They'll have to build a field.

Reply to rsdsharp (Reply #1)

Fri Aug 4, 2023, 04:25 PM

Aug 2023

The article says the kids were playing on a concrete slab at a Bhuddist temple.

ProfessorGAC

(69,556 posts)

3. Interesting Connection

Reply to brush (Reply #2)

Fri Aug 4, 2023, 06:53 PM

Aug 2023

In Ken Burns' Baseball, in I believe in the Fifth Inning, one fella mentions that baseball can be played in a pasture, on a NY street, on a playground, on a hill, and he goes on.
These kids in Bhutan seem to be proving his opinion to be correct!

Brother Buzz

(37,607 posts)

4. We need another "Lefty" O'Doul to get them going in the right direction

Reply to brush (Original post)

Sat Aug 5, 2023, 12:26 AM

Aug 2023

Francis Joseph "Lefty" O'Doul was an American Major League Baseball player who went on to become an extraordinarily successful manager in the minor leagues. He was also a vital figure in both the pre-war establishment and post-war revival of professional baseball in Japan.

https://baseballhall.org/discover/short-stops/odoul-left-his-mark-on-game

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