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After spending sometime in Boston, Finnish Professor in 1922 melded American baseball with traditional Finnish ballgames, confecting the game of "pesapallo," which gained subsequent popularity in Finland. Pesapallo features, among other variations, zig-zag base lines, placing the ball in play with a sort high lob, and "wounded" status as an intermediate fate between "out" and "safe" . . . [you thought this Knick rule was dead?] fair balls hit out of park are just singles. | After spending sometime in Boston, Finnish Professor in 1922 melded American baseball with traditional Finnish ballgames, confecting the game of "pesapallo," which gained subsequent popularity in Finland. Pesapallo features, among other variations, zig-zag base lines, placing the ball in play with a sort high lob, and "wounded" status as an intermediate fate between "out" and "safe" . . . [you thought this Knick rule was dead?] fair balls hit out of park are just singles. | ||
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Josh Chetwynd, Baseball in Europe (McFarland, 2008), page 202. | Josh Chetwynd, Baseball in Europe (McFarland, 2008), page 202. | ||
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