Did anyone know that in 1899 Forest were...

[simsini]

...UK baseball champions?

I just saw this on Wikipedia and thought I'd share it incase anyone else didn't know either! ;D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_in_the_United_Kingdom

 

[Flaggers]

...UK baseball champions?

I just saw this on Wikipedia and thought I'd share it incase anyone else didn't know either! ;D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_in_the_United_Kingdom

Awesome!

No I didn't, but I always had a secret curiousity as to why D***y's old ground was called "The Baseball Ground"....I guess I just made the connection! (and I'm serious here...I just grew up with it called that, and never really asked why...that's just what it was called.)

Brilliant! Thanks!

 

[Anatoli]

I don't really understand that as we had been an established football league club for almost 30 years at that point. Oh hang on, it's Wikipedia...

 

[The Maniacal Megatron]

I think Anatoli has just summed it up.

 

[Anatoli]

I've found the Stat elsewhere as well. It wasn't really Forest, we'd been busy winning FA Cups the season before. We were just sharing our new city Ground with some Baseball types who nicked our name.

 

[northy121]

[quote='Sir' Flagman ]
Awesome!

No I didn't, but I always had a secret curiousity as to why D***y's old ground was called "The Baseball Ground"....I guess I just made the connection! (and I'm serious here...I just grew up with it called that, and never really asked why...that's just what it was called.)

Brilliant! Thanks!
[/quote]i think the baseball ground was actually built 4 baseball but it never took off so direby inherited it i'm not 100% sure on that but its what a sheep told me

 

[earthworm]

i think the baseball ground was actually built 4 baseball but it never took off so direby inherited it i'm not 100% sure on that but its what a sheep told me

That's probably because its shit, American, and worse than cricket.