Talk:History of baseball outside the United States

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[edit] Baseball in Latin America

This article needs an explanation of when and how baseball became so amazingly popular in Latin America. If nobody heeds this call I might give the research a try, but I really don't know much about the subject.

-User:Oystertoadfish

[edit] Cuba

The following website contains information on baseball in Cuba: http://www.cubasports.com/english/beisbol.asp If someone can extract some of that and put it here, that'd be great. I'd do it myself, but I don't have time right now. Maybe in a couple of days, if someone else doesn't beat me to it ;-) ··· rWd · Talk ··· 20:13, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

  • I've started to add to the Cuban section. It's slow going, but I'm working according to this timeline [1]. Gabbahead 17:24, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
    • Thanks! ··· rWd · Talk ··· 10:43, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
Would anyone mind if turned Baseball in Cuba into an article? There is some good information here, and it could do with some expanding. --Zleitzen 21:34, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] World Cup and Olympics Sections

Both the World Cup of Baseball and Olympics sections are redundant to the separate articles already here on WP for each entry. Unless there is serious objection, I will substantially reduce each of those sections and ensure the important information is included on the main articles for each of those competitions.--DaveOinSF 21:51, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Good idea. I noticed the chart for the WCB is a little better formatted on this page, but the one on the WCB page has more info. Maybe it is possible to take the best features of each when combining. Sylvain1972 13:16, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] World Cup and professional players

The article says, "Profesional players usually do not participate in the World Cups, due to the tournaments coinciding with regular competition games." My impression had always been that the World Cup was specifically restricted to amateur players (the way the old Olympic games used to be amateur-only). Is there a source that clarifies this question? BRMo 22:41, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

You appear to be right about that. According to this article, http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/news/mlb_news.jsp?ymd=20040819&content_id=832284&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp, major league players are not allowed, although since 2001 minor league players have been permitted. Sylvain1972 13:30, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Contradiction?

The Australia section says its first game was in 1857 which seems to contradict the first line of the article which says 1874 was the date of "perhaps the first recorded instances of baseball played outside North America". 1857 seems very early for baseball's origins in Australia. Are there sources for any of these claims? --D. Monack | talk 08:27, 29 September 2007 (UTC)