Baseball in Other Countries
 

We are traveling in Europe and we are currently in France. The restaurant we are eating in has the picture below. I thought it would be an interesting thread for evidence of baseball abroad!

Au Bureau - Pub et Brasserie
Libourne, France

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That is cool. I always wanted to attend a game in Europe. I even looked up schedules a few times but never made it to any games on my trips over there.:(

This 1930s article about baseball (translated for French audiences) makes interesting reading and features multi-sport names in Georges Bruni and Tom Topping. A good exercise for those who speak the language or want to. :-)

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I've been to a game in Japan and one in South Korea. Such a fun atmosphere.

I've been to games in other countries. It's a good time.

When I was in Taiwan I saw a couple games and have a box of Taiwan baseball "wax" packs. Not really wax packs but probably the equivalent. I'm going to guess that was from the 90s. I'll have to dig it up one of these days. Still unopened. Maybe I'll open them. :p

Do the ballparks for the Expos and Blue Jays count? They're Canada, but they are MLB teams.

If they do, here's Sept 12, 2003 (my last game in Montreal), as the Expos beat New York to stay above .500!

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Catcher #5 Michael Barrett posed for photos before the game and later hit a tie-breaking homer off Al Leiter. Not sure if that kid in the Magic jersey's wearing stacked ball caps or one Expos hat with a double-billed deerstalker style.

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Expos retired numbers 8 (Carter), 10 (Staub/Dawson), and 30 (Raines) were "returned to service" when the franchise moved to Washington. Cheeky!

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Watched baseball games in Cuba & Japan, both fantastic experiences, Tokyo Dome was crazy. And a baseball card from Spain in the 1920's.
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Very nice experiences! Canada counts! Just need some pics from the north side of Hudson Bay!


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Took a family trip to Montreal in 1969 and visited Parc Jarry to watch the Reds and 1st year Expos. This was the game:
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The things I remember best..it was Bat Night and the sound of kids banging those bats on the metal stands in left was deafening...the Johnny Bench grand slam that won the game for the Reds in 11 innings... and the fact that Jim Palmer pitched a no-hitter in Baltimore and the scoreboard update for it. I was wearing my Orioles cap, and the fans around us made sure I saw the final update.

In the early 80s, I went with some friends to see a Mexican League game in Nueva Laredo on our way back from a trip to Big Bend National Park. We spent way more time driving out of our way to get there than we did in the ballpark itself. I remember that the stadium was small and rickety, the crowd was small but enthusiastic, and the Owls had ex-Oriole Jesse Jefferson on their team.

I was based in Beijing as lead sports columnist for China Daily from 2003 to 2005, and again from 2012-2020. Our paper covered the launch of the seven-team professional China Baseball League in 2004, and became a national media partner with the CBL the following season. Baseball has been played in China for more than 100 years, but is still not considered mainstream. The league poured a lot of resources into educating fans about the game, and by the end of the inaugural season the Beijing Tigers were attracting crowds of 8,000. The teams were limited to 24-man rosters that included four imports -- mostly Cubans, but also from Japan and South Korea. The homegrown talent came from regional university and college leagues that featured a lot of American Canadian and Australian coaches.