How Britain Embraced Baseball Fever

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Baseball and Britishness don’t really go together. But is that really true?

After all, there was once a great boom in baseball in the United Kingdom. Great Britain were even its first world champions.

This is the story of when Britain got baseball fever.

Seb Stafford-Bloor explains. Illustrated by Philippe Fenner.

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