# Peanuts/Baseball quickie

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanuts-baseball-quickie/61460>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 10, 2001, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanuts-baseball-quickie/61460 "2001-04-10T10:35:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crown_Prince_of_Irony)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2001, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanuts-baseball-quickie/61460/21 "2001-04-12T19:54:59Z")

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> \*\*\*Originally posted by nineiron \*
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> > \*Originally posted by Fiver \*
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> > You may like it, although it definitely isn’t cricket. There’s no such thing, for example, as a baseball game that lasts for five days and then ends in a draw.
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> This is fairly accurate, but not technically true. There have been baseball games that have lasted over the course of different days, though it isn’t common at all, as I understand it is in cricket (a sport I know NOTHING about).\*\*

:hijack:

This subject reminds me of a brilliant novel by W.P. Kinsella, The Iowa Baseball Confederacy. It is about a game the Cubs play with a bush league team of amateurs that winds up lasting 2,000 innnings.

Baseball fantasy, of course, but W. P. Kinsella writes like a dream, and I just had to recommend it.

:hijack:

Ragarding the OP, it makes me realize how Americentric I am. I read that, and thought to myself “How can anyone not know what a forced run on balls is?” Then I read that the poster is from Ireland, and felt like a twit.

:in a hick, trailer park accent:  
Whut!?! Yeww don’ know 'bout basebawl? Jeezus Kee-rist!

:re-hijack:

“forced run on balls” - sounds vaugely obscene, in an S&M kinda way.

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**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2001, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanuts-baseball-quickie/61460/22 "2001-04-13T21:53:50Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Fiver \*  
> \*\ ***Pushkin** , I see from your profile that you live in Northern Ireland. Is there any baseball near where you live? I’ve heard the popularity of “America’s pastime” is growing among the British Commonwealth.
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> You may like it, although it definitely isn’t cricket. There’s no such thing, for example, as a baseball game that lasts for five days and then ends in a draw. \*\*

No baseball, but there’s a new Ice hockey rink/cineplex/science centre open in Belfast, the Odyssey centre thats brought Ice Hockey into the public eye a bit more (although the team apparently is all Canadian.) I don’t mind watching baseball the odd time the only problem is the time its shown on TV over here.

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