http://localhost:8080/winston-churchill-baseball Senior Fellow, Hillsdale College Churchill Project, Writer and Historian Thu, 27 May 2021 13:21:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 http://localhost:8080/winston-churchill-baseball#comment-18470 Fri, 18 May 2018 00:02:02 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=6834#comment-18470 That’s wonderful. I wonder if he ever witnessed a baseball game (even a youth game). It is quite possible. My grandfather (who was Scottish and served in a Scottish Regiment in WWI 1914-1919) played baseball (and shinty) with Canadian teams in Greece 1916-1918. He had spent some time in America and having grown up playing shinty in the Highlands adapted quite well to baseball. He was an ardent Brooklyn Dodger fan. So I learned to keep score from a man with a very thick (braid) Scots English. Oddly, he knew nothing of soccer (football) because as a boy 1880’s 1890’s that English game was not known in the Highlands only in cities like Glasgow. He never played or followed soccer though my father did (being born in 1915 in Glasgow). My father played rounders in Scotland and when he came to America played some baseball too.

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