How big is baseball in your country?

[u/chocolatelies]

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?

Edit: Just hit 69 comments. Nice.

[u/vakantiehuisopwielen]

In secondary school (12-17yo) softball was pretty standard during the sports lessons in my school, but baseball as is, is not really big. Admittedly that my school used a sports venue which included a baseball field, and I'm not expecting many schools have that.

Club baseball is never broadcasted, just -sometimes- the Dutch team, as they're pretty high ranked internationally, which says all about the popularity of baseball outside the US and Japan..

And I think you could say the same about cricket outside the commonwealth.. For some reason the Dutch team is ranked high, but I know no-one who knows the rules of cricket.. It's just a typical English sport (satire) for us.

[u/chocolatelies → u/vakantiehuisopwielen]

I'm honestly shocked at just how specific baseball is to the Americas and Japan.

[u/gmennert → u/chocolatelies]

I dont agree with this take on Dutch baseball. The national baseball league is definitely on the national broadcast channel a couple of times a year. And I think we have one of the best national teams/leagues in Europe. Mainly because of our large Antillean diaspora. Our national team was world champion in 2011, and we had multiple Dutch players in the major league.

Okay, it’s definitely not as popular as in the United states or Japan. But we have a long history(since 1920) with baseball, and it’s more populair than in other European countries.

The wiki gives a nice summary : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_in_the_Netherlands

[u/JudgeWhoOverrules → u/chocolatelies]

Don't forget South Korea and Taiwan are both huge baseball nations.

[u/chocolatelies → u/JudgeWhoOverrules]

I didn't know about Taiwan. That's cool.