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lofty2p t1_ixv74k1 wrote

Reply to comment by contextual_somebody in TIL In The 1930s, Baseball rivaled Soccer In England, attracting 10,000 spectators per game. In 1938, at the inaugural Baseball World Cup, Great Britain defeated the USA 4 games to 1. The outbreak of WWII interrupted the sports ascendancy, and it never recovered its prewar popularity. by contextual_somebody

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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