Baseball

Today I want to tell you a little about the sport discipline which soon will be in the Olympic Games: baseball!

It is definitely underappreciated in Poland. For example: there are about 600k habitants in Poznań and there are still any baseball stadium… That is why the matches are played in Cytadela with its uneven terrain… However, most of Polish cities has a baseball stadium.

Fun fact: you can find a stadium in some small Polish villages, like Miejska Górka - a village with mere 4k habitants ;) I was personally only in Osielsko, which is close to Bydgoszcz. Some photos you can see below:

Now, a little about rules. I am not going to lie to you: the rules are very complicated. In general, there are two teams who play by turns without time limit. Fortunately, you can find some tutorials on the Internet, like this one:

The interesting is the case of terminology. In Polish, there are only the most important words translated into Polish, like hitter/batter - pałkarz, pitcher - miotacz, catcher - łapacz, mound - górka, to pitch - narzucać. Even the name of this sport, baseball, is not translated. The same goes with the rest: strikes, fouls, balls, home runs, etc. That is why you can read/watch an English tutorial and understand it without problems ;)

I played in baseball for a few years and it gave me so much fun :) Such a pity this sport is not more popular in Poland… You can’t forget that Polish game palant gave rise to American baseball! ;)