Hi,
I played cricket after 2000 for the first time - but this time it was in US. I
was god at fielding esp getting the ball out of the forest .
I must admit that I never played American football in India but have been
playing baseball all my life both at my father's school and at the Jesuit one
where I did my later schooling. Baseball bats, balls, pitching gloves etc are
very much available in small Indian cities too.
Thus, it was surprising when yesterday I was quizzed about baseball rules by my
metro friends (one each from Kolkata, Mumbai and Delhi) - esp by my journo
roommate --who didn't at all believe that I could play baseball in India. I had
to tell them the basic rules I have known since childhood like "3 strikes out."
They would know the rules even if someone has seen movies on TV like "Angel"
about orphaned kids who helped baseball team become champs again (somewhat
like Boston's Red Sox's World Series win at Fenway Park, Boston, in 2004/2005
while I was at Harvard and saw classmates and profs alike excited and watching
the game late nights. They had won it again after 30-40 years).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball#Baseball_around_the_world
Even I beat my Harvard classmates at the short game we played in the
neighborhood park of my Japanese classmate's residence in Sommerville - with my
shots. Japanese also play baseball as enthusiastically as Americans.
Baseball is played by Indian army guys too who don't play cricket at all. I
never saw any such thing like cricket - so time consuming- they play polo,
soccer, volleyball, hockey, basketball, water polo etc etc.
Now those in US are trying to learn basics of baseball etc. Why not learn to
play it in India - at top colleges , Infosys , Wipro and other companies
whose employees need to be in tune with US, Japan etc
any comments?
Umesh
PS: Ofcourse many learn new games in new environs - I played tennis for the
first time after coming to US - from a Telugu roommate of mine from Hyderabad
Ofcourse if you have played badminton, table tennis before it is not that
difficult
Umesh Sharma
Washington D.C.
1-202-215-4328 [Cell]
Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of 2005
http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu info)
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info)
www.gse.harvard.edu/iep (where the above 2 are used )
http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/
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