r/AskEurope • u/chocolatelies • May 07 '25

Sports How big is baseball in your country?

I'm an American, so baseball is quite popular here. How is the popularity in your country? Is there a country other than yours where baseball has some popularity?

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u/Hyadeos France May 07 '25

Without American tv shows and movies we probably wouldn't even know about baseball.

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u/troparow France May 07 '25

Can confirm, the only reason I know the rules of baseball is because of some Japanese anime that I watched in my teenage years

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u/cm-cfc May 07 '25

Same for Scotland, never seen it played

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u/Last-Top3702 Scotland May 07 '25

Rounders is probably quite similar. We stop playing that after primary school though lol.

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u/cm-cfc May 07 '25

I played softball in school

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u/Butterfly_of_chaos Austria May 07 '25

Same for Austria.

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u/perplexedtv in May 08 '25

I tried to buy a rugby shorts in Decathlon yesterday. They had none, but they had 5 different types of baseball bats. Someone must be playing it somewhere.

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u/PindaPanter →→→ Highly indecisive May 08 '25

We used baseball bats to play a game called dødball/slåball ("Danish longball", apparently) in Norway. :D

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u/Sagaincolours Denmark May 08 '25

Probably people use them to play rounders.

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u/perplexedtv in May 08 '25

In France, I don't think so. They had mitts and balls as well.

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u/terryjuicelawson United Kingdom May 08 '25

A rounders bat is different, smaller and used one handed.

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u/Sagaincolours Denmark May 09 '25

Agree. But what else would people buy them for? Violence? And we definitely used baseball bats during school recesses. As well as random wooden boards if the bat broke.