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Baseball, not cricket, in Australia? No sticky wicket for Dodgers - chairman - 03-01-2014
SYDNEY, Australia — The Los Angeles Dodgers' season-opening series in Australia later this month takes place on some of the most hallowed sports turf in the world: the Sydney Cricket Ground. Just for comparison, baseball was being played at these cricket grounds almost 25 years before Fenway Park was built.
That's right — baseball. The Sydney stadium, where the Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks kick off the Major League Baseball season March 22 and 23, is primarily a cricket venue, although rugby is played there as well.
Baseball's roots in Sydney date to 1888, when the Chicago White Stockings (now the Cubs) played an exhibition led by pitcher and future sports-equipment baron Albert Spalding.
Re: Baseball, not cricket, in Australia? No sticky wicket for Dodgers - timmyj51 - 03-02-2014
Pro baseballers go to Oz they play in nothing less than the finest sports facility in the land.
Rastas/Ferns come to USA and play in crappy, little, third rate, stadium.
Cricket players second class citizens of the sports world...and they don't mind.
Re: Baseball, not cricket, in Australia? No sticky wicket for Dodgers - pahagwl - 03-02-2014
Well, I have to say that the prospect of watching baseball is at the Sydney Cricket Ground is both enticing and a bit bizarre. It would be very interesting to observe how the baseball players adjust to the conditions in Australia. All in all, I believe that it would be a good spectacle for the sports fans to cherish.
Re: Baseball, not cricket, in Australia? No sticky wicket for Dodgers - ketchim - 03-02-2014
Brian Lara named his duaghter , Sydney ! ::LOL::