baseball, "The Coin", treasures

Halsten Aastebol Halsten.Aastebol at elkraft.ntnu.no
Thu May 18 09:02:48 CEST 2000


At 15:17 17.05.00 +0300, Kari Lepola wrote:
>All of this isn't exactly about Disney comics (although
>I do get there at some point :) so you might want to
>skip.
>
>Don asked about the baseball playing ghost and the print
>quality of "The Coin".
>
>...But baseball or rather pesapallo, which is a very similar
>game, is played a lot in Finland. It was developed by
>Lauri Pihkala in the beginning of 1920's. It's based
>mainly on baseball and some old finnish ball-hitting
>games. The biggest difference to normal baseball is that
>the ball is pitched vertically instead of horizontally and the pitcher
>stands next to the hitter. A special
>association was founded in 1925 and they have been
>playing for the finnish championship since 1922.
>The game is on a  professional level.

A similar game, "slaaball", is popular with kids in Norway to. But only as 
a schoolyard and street activity. Nothing is organized like in Finland. But 
I guess this sort of game is common throughout Europe.

Halsten






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