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Lumpyproletarian t1_ixufyhl wrote

I’m sorry to burst your bubble, but 10,000 spectators is very few compared to most professional football and cricket games of the period.

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contextual_somebody OP t1_ixv0k0n wrote

I don’t have a bubble or a dog in this fight. Baseball was rapidly becoming very popular and in some places it rivaled Soccer and the two sports shared a pitch.

West Ham hosted Baseball at the Olympics because of the Hammers’ history as one of the most successful baseball clubs in England.

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lofty2p t1_ixv74k1 wrote

Interestingly, for a long time the world record for a crowd at a game of baseball was held by the MCG in Australia. I believe that baseball was a demonstration sport at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics and a huge crowd flooded the MCG to watch. As that stadium was bigger than most US baseball stadiums for a few decades, it held the record for some time.

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