{"id":335,"date":"2008-03-04T19:56:03","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T19:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=335"},"modified":"2008-03-04T20:09:29","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T20:09:29","slug":"trescos-baseball-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=335","title":{"rendered":"Tresco’s baseball match"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cricket and baseball.\u00c2\u00a0 Alike in some ways, completely different in others.\u00c2\u00a0 The similarities make them both antagonistic towards each other (specifically cricket fans denouncing baseball as a way to imply the superiority of their game) and natural partners.\u00c2\u00a0 Surely a person who can marvel at the technique of a perfectly executed cover drive can similarly appreciate the skill required to turn on a 95 MPH fastball and launch it over four hundred feet?\u00c2\u00a0 A bowler who can deceive a batsman with a cleverly disguised slower ball must recognise the joy a pitcher feels when he lures the batter out in front of a circle change.<\/p>\n

Ultimately they are<\/em>different games and the cultural gap between the two is huge (although\u00c2\u00a0a fair amount of baseball lingo has creeped into\u00c2\u00a0cricket in recent years).\u00c2\u00a0 But why make a choice?\u00c2\u00a0 Why not just enjoy two great sports rather than settle for one?\u00c2\u00a0 That’s my advice, for what it’s worth.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the cause of my little rant is that BaseballSoftballUK has recently released details <\/a>about the baseball game that is part of ex-England (I guess we still have to define him as such?) cricketer Marcus Trescothick’s\u00c2\u00a0benefit year.\u00c2\u00a0 I had heard about this at the turn of the year but was unable to find out much information about it until now.\u00c2\u00a0 Somerset’s ground at Taunton will be turned into a baseball ballpark, and Tresco (who I would bet can sock a baseball a fair distance when he makes contact) will be joined by current and former England cricketers to face a Team GB baseball side.\u00c2\u00a0 The game will take place on the 4th of October, with more details being released nearer the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cricket and baseball.\u00c2\u00a0 Alike in some ways, completely different in others.\u00c2\u00a0 The similarities make them both antagonistic towards each other (specifically cricket fans denouncing baseball as a way to imply the superiority of their game) and natural partners.\u00c2\u00a0 Surely a person who can marvel at the technique of a perfectly executed cover drive can similarly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-baseball-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}