Actually, I was wrong. It does appear that there's some
baseball played in Scotland. I've never seen any media
coverage, but a team from Edinburgh has been in existence
since 1986 and competes in a league (the BBF League North)
where they are currently lying fourth. The other three teams
in the league are English.
You can buy baseball bats from TA-Sports. The 'hooligans'
don't use baseball bats, though. They're more into blades.
And Samurai swords.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/4788881.stm
Yes, naturally I've received impressions of American culture
from reading American fiction. I'm not suggesting that that
doesn't happen. Readers interpret, like I said. Reality is
subjective. Surely fiction must be too.
Cheers,
Al
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Al wrote:
"Incidentally, the examples of the use of the
baseball bat you refer to
are not atypical. No baseball is played in
Scotland and we have
virtually no exposure to the sport on television.
Baseball bats
typically serve only one purpose in this dark
corner of the planet.
They're also the weapon of choice among
enforcers."
Where do they buy them? Is there that much of a
hooligan market that
regular stores stock baseball bats?
But this kind of makes my point about fiction
carrying culture. Rightly
or wrongly, I've learned things about Scottish
culture from you, Rankin,
Irvine Welsh, Gordon Legge, James Kelman, etc.
You're clearly well read
in American noir. Haven't you learned things
about, or at least gotten
impressions of, the USA from your fiction
reading?
Mark
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