"The Natural", "The Short-Stop" and "Frank Merriwell's Diamond Foes": 3 different takes on baseball.

Until this week, I thought "bunting" was the regalia you hung up on the King's birthday - now I know better, and I have, perhaps, a little insight into the American tradition during the first half of the twentieth century through three very different baseball novels.
Continuing the "Summer of Sport" with a pastime I know very little about, but enjoying the learning experience.
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[@kenward1310]

Quite enjoying your reviews of baseball novels. Thanks.

[@GenreBooks23]

You’re welcome. It all goes science fiction for the next month, but Summer Of Sport continues to end of September, so I may return to it!

[@BookChatWithPat8668]

You're an awfully good sport to read all of these baseball novels, Gavin! I used to follow baseball quite closely but not so much anymore. I've read The Natural, but that's it from this batch. Terrific job reviewing these novels.

[@GenreBooks23]

Thanks Pat, I’m going to see if there are any ways to watch Baseball for free in the UK! I’ll need a team to support - who would you recommend?

[@KatJack-vl8xj]

I would have thought that baseball and cricket might have evolved from a similar source You've got someone pitching a ball, another person with a bat trying to hit it, and running back and forth.
No?

[@GenreBooks23]

The same family of sports, but I think have always been separate. Jane Austen certainly thinks they are different and I’m not arguing with her. In UK, kids used to play a game called Rounders, which is very similar to baseball.