Beer and cricket

Kevnlis · Post by **Kevnlis** » Monday Nov 19, 2007 9:20 am

Do they have baseball here? I did not know that. You guys any good at it?

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Monday Nov 19, 2007 10:09 am

Yep. Baseball's been here for a long time. Australia just came 6th at te World Cup, and we have lots of pro players in the US.

We also won the silver medal at Athens.

bottle top · Post by **bottle top** » Monday Nov 19, 2007 8:30 pm

Did you know that the record attendance for a baseball game was in Australia? They got over 100k people to an exhibition match at the MCG in 1956.

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Monday Nov 19, 2007 8:51 pm

Sure did. Melbourne Olympics from memory. I'd love to have seen baseball on the MCG.

Iron-Haggis · Post by **Iron-Haggis** » Monday Nov 19, 2007 9:25 pm

Back in the day Australian cricketers used to play baseball in the off season. Most slower balls bowled in cricket today came from baseball.

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Tuesday Nov 20, 2007 6:47 am

I thought that cricketers played AFL in the off-season?

Either way, a lot of top crickets did come from baseball- Alan Border springs to mind.

Iron-Haggis · Post by **Iron-Haggis** » Wednesday Nov 21, 2007 10:01 pm

All the ones that got injured played AFL. Before professionalism so many promising cricketers careers were ended by getting injured playing AFL.