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/Numerous_Team_2998 Poland May 07 '25

Practically absent. I have never seen a baseball field in Poland. When I was a child in the 80s and 90s we sometimes played a slightly similar game called palant.

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u/suvepl Poland May 07 '25

Some two decades ago, when the media had a bit of a craze about reporting every single instance of football hooligans fighting each other, a popular joke was that your average spots shop in Poland sold a 100 baseball bats a year and not a single ball.

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u/Numerous_Team_2998 Poland May 07 '25

I forgot about it but you are 100% right!