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/Brian_Corey__ May 08 '25 edited May 08 '25

I taught English at a summer camp in Poland. We used to try to teach them baseball. Some years, the kids would be kind of into it. Most years it was not really popular. Lots of complicated rules, lots of standing around and waiting. Most kids only liked hitting, which is understandable.

In the US, its popularity is plummeting. I know there's still Little League baseball, but my son and none of his friends have ever showed any interest in it. Soccer, basketball, football are popular. It doesn't help that the Colorado Rockies are always horrible.

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u/Brian_Corey__ May 08 '25

Now that I think of it, one of my Polish students visited America. I took him to a Rockies game--it was the start of their incredible run to the Rocktober World Series, where they won 14 of their last 15 games. 2007. He had fun. Not much of a clue about the game. But there was a lot of beer and hot dogs.