[Vigilanteman]

Correct. But even the baseball World Series has its origins in a newspaper called The World which sponsored the first contests back in 1903 and for several years thereafter.

Britain is free to field a baseball team or football team if they could compete at the same level.

The Japanese which are the only country even close to competing at our level eventually sends all their best players to the Major Leagues for a reason and it ain't just salary.

You can name Hall of Fame class players born in the Netherlands (Bert Blyleven), Japan (Ichiro Suzuki), Dominican Republic, Cuba and other countries, but I can't name a single one from Great Britain.

[1rudeboy]

Britain is free to field a baseball team or football team if they could compete at the same level.

I think that is precisely the distinction that many fail to understand. Britain is not free to field a baseball team. MLB would not allow it.

As for the World Baseball Classic? It's a joke, because the best MLB players don't play.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Not 100%correct, but more to the point, off the subject of what an ignorant and arrogant ass Piers is - which was my only point.