[Assam] Soft skills--Cricket in US; Baseball in India

[umesh sharma]

Hi,
I played cricket after 2000 for the first time - but this time it was in US. I was god at fielding esp getting the ball out of the forest .

I must admit that I never played American football in India but have been playing baseball all my life both at my father's school and at the Jesuit one where I did my later schooling. Baseball bats, balls, pitching gloves etc are very much available in small Indian cities too. 

Thus, it was surprising when yesterday I was quizzed about baseball rules by my metro friends (one each from Kolkata, Mumbai and Delhi) - esp by my journo roommate --who didn't at all believe that I could play baseball in India. I had to tell them the basic rules I have known since childhood like "3 strikes out." They would know the rules even if someone has seen movies on TV like "Angel"  about orphaned kids who helped baseball team become champs again (somewhat  like Boston's  Red Sox's World Series win at Fenway Park, Boston, in 2004/2005 while I was at Harvard and saw classmates and profs alike excited and watching the game late nights. They had won it again after 30-40 years).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball#Baseball_around_the_world

 Even I beat my Harvard classmates at the short game we played in the neighborhood park of my Japanese classmate's residence in Sommerville - with my shots. Japanese also play baseball as enthusiastically as Americans.
Baseball is played by Indian army guys too who don't play cricket at all. I never saw any such thing like cricket - so time consuming- they play polo, soccer, volleyball, hockey, basketball, water polo etc etc.
Now those in US are trying to learn basics of  baseball etc. Why not learn  to play it in India - at  top colleges , Infosys , Wipro and other  companies whose employees  need to be in tune with  US, Japan etc 

any comments?

Umesh

PS: Ofcourse many learn new games in new environs - I played tennis for the first  time after coming to US - from a Telugu roommate of mine from Hyderabad
Ofcourse if you have played badminton, table tennis before it is not that difficult
  

Umesh Sharma

Washington D.C. 

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Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of 2005

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