http://www.irishcentral.com/topics/ALCS IrishCentral ALCS en-us http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/baseballs-debt-to-a-gaelic-game-learning-about-the-gaa-during-the-alcs-104729739.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/baseballs-debt-to-a-gaelic-game-learning-about-the-gaa-during-the-alcs-104729739.html Mon, 11 Oct 2010 01:50:10 PDT
How do say “Play Ball!” in Irish?With the long baseball season finally segueing into the playoffs, I was using the time between pitches, while the batter wanders around adjusting himself, to wander around online, and just as the batter stepped back out of the box to start the adjustment process all over again, I surfed onto this internet factoid: “Baseball was probably derived from Rounders, a game played in Ireland since the fifteenth century” I hate to admit it, but this was news to me…but not of course to the GAAThis revelation came from a HuffingtonPostcom slideshow entitled “US History: 13 Myth-Busting Facts That Will Make You Rethink Everything You Know,” written by three guys from the endlessly diverting Mental Floss website (http://www READ MORE ]]>