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Originally Posted by Fallschirmjager
You can play baseball with a broom handle and a tennis ball can you?
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Not really. I mean, you can take a broom handle and hit a tennis ball around, but that's not really baseball. And you still need to find at least a dozen people to even have a semblance of teams to make it anything really like baseball.
You can grab a basketball, go to the park (or the school gym) with just a handful other people and have pretty much the same game as they play in the NBA. Same regulations, same rules, etc.
A broomstick and a tennis ball with a handful of friends in a grass field with makeshift bases, no fence and a pitcher, catcher and one fielder per team, obviously no stealing allowed, no real home runs, etc.? Nah thanks, I'd rather play 3-on-3.
That and people play hoops indoors in the winter. When you're talking about inner-city areas, it's a lot easier (more affordable) to build a gym indoors than to try to build any sorts of baseball facilities indoors. A permanent gym plus a ten dollar basketball is all you need. Not so much with baseball. Pitching machines, batting cages, gloves, bats, dozens of baseballs that don't seem to last very long, etc.