Talk:History of baseball outside the United States

Baseball in Latin America
This article needs an explanation of when and how baseball became so amazingly popular in Latin America. If nobody heeds this call I might give the research a try, but I really don't know much about the subject.

-User:Oystertoadfish

Cuba
The following website contains information on baseball in Cuba: http://www.cubasports.com/english/beisbol.asp If someone can extract some of that and put it here, that'd be great. I'd do it myself, but I don't have time right now. Maybe in a couple of days, if someone else doesn't beat me to it ;-) ··· rWd · Talk ··· 20:13, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I've started to add to the Cuban section. It's slow going, but I'm working according to this timeline . Gabbahead 17:24, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks! ··· rWd · Talk ··· 10:43, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Would anyone mind if turned Baseball in Cuba into an article? There is some good information here, and it could do with some expanding. --Zleitzen 21:34, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

World Cup and Olympics Sections
Both the World Cup of Baseball and Olympics sections are redundant to the separate articles already here on WP for each entry. Unless there is serious objection, I will substantially reduce each of those sections and ensure the important information is included on the main articles for each of those competitions.--DaveOinSF 21:51, 8 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Good idea. I noticed the chart for the WCB is a little better formatted on this page, but the one on the WCB page has more info. Maybe it is possible to take the best features of each when combining. Sylvain1972 13:16, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

World Cup and professional players
The article says, "Profesional players usually do not participate in the World Cups, due to the tournaments coinciding with regular competition games." My impression had always been that the World Cup was specifically restricted to amateur players (the way the old Olympic games used to be amateur-only). Is there a source that clarifies this question? BRMo 22:41, 27 May 2006 (UTC)


 * You appear to be right about that. According to this article, http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/news/mlb_news.jsp?ymd=20040819&content_id=832284&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp, major league players are not allowed, although since 2001 minor league players have been permitted. Sylvain1972 13:30, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Contradiction?
The Australia section says its first game was in 1857 which seems to contradict the first line of the article which says 1874 was the date of "perhaps the first recorded instances of baseball played outside North America". 1857 seems very early for baseball's origins in Australia. Are there sources for any of these claims? --D. Monack | talk 08:27, 29 September 2007 (UTC)


 * This seems to be a simple case of transposed number, so I've changed the date (to 1875) and removed the Contradict message. I've left the fact tag though, since that statement still needs a citation regardless. — Ω (talk) 09:05, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Just a list
I came to this page looking for a list of countries where baseball is a major sport. A simple question that should have a simple answer.

I don't care about all the countries where it is played. American football is played in Germany -- about 3 or 4 times a year as a curiosity. I only care about the countries where it is a MAJOR sport. Soccer is played in the US, but I would list the US as a soccer country. Bostoner (talk) 05:24, 16 July 2010 (UTC)


 * I came here to make the same point, this page is entirely redundant. Almost all of the information given contradicts the well referenced information in the main article page each section links to, and the wildly inaccurate information given on this page lacks references. I don’t understand the need for this page at all, should it not be nominated for deletion? AngelsAndOwls (talk) 07:35, 7 August 2023 (UTC)

Title and lead don't match.
The title is baseball outside the United States. The lead starts with noting the first game outside of North America, in 1874, though Canada had a game 36 years earlier. According to an unsourced bit in this article, baseball is very popular in Mexico, but we have no section or article about baseball in Mexico. Was there a Mexican game before the English game, too? InedibleHulk (talk) 10:02, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

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