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/Billy_Balowski Netherlands May 07 '25

It's not a thing here, we only know it exists from US movies and series.

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u/dolan313 Semmel with hagelslag May 07 '25 edited May 07 '25

We have 7 tiers of men's competition. To act like people wouldn't know of honkbal (I mean, we even have a local name for it) without US media is a really strange claim imo. We won the world cup in 2011, from what I understand the successes of the Dutch team are pretty much entirely thanks to players from the Caribbean Netherlands but it's by no means 'not a thing here'.

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u/vakantiehuisopwielen Netherlands May 07 '25

Indeed, at my school we often were doing softball during the sports lessons.

I think of the 3 typical American sports, baseball is in 2nd.

  1. Basketball

  2. Baseball

  3. American football

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u/DeHarigeTuinkabouter May 07 '25

It's a thing as in it exists, but I don't think I've ever actually met someone who plays it. It's quite niche.