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LONDON (AP) — London looks like a no brainer for a European street journey. Paris is all however assured subsequent. Why not throw in Germany and the Netherlands?
Main League Baseball has massive plans for Europe, beginning with an English reintroduction to the game this weekend when the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs play a two-game sequence in London.
The New York Yankees and Boston Pink Sox featured in London 4 years in the past, smashing six residence runs in a European debut for MLB that was greater scoring — the Yankees received 17-13 — than the NFL’s first one in London in 2007, when the New York Giants beat the Miami Dolphins 13-10.
Although the coronavirus pandemic threw a curveball — the Playing cards-Cubs sequence was slated for 2020 — the success of the World Baseball Traditional has supplied a lift. Britain received a sport on the event for the primary time and located a star in Seattle Mariners prospect Harry Ford, who was born in Atlanta however has mother and father from the U.Ok.
Britain is MLB’s largest market in Europe when it comes to broadcast income, merchandise gross sales and subscribers to digital merchandise, although it trails the likes of Mexico, Japan, South Korea, China and Australia.
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