That game looks awesome!! Wish we had it here in Sweden.
JYMYYYY!!!!!
I moved to Jyväskylä recently. I played in a game of pesäpallo last week and I loved it. I’m currently looking for a place to practice and play more regularly. If anyone knows, please tell me. I don’t speak Finnish yet so it’s hard to research.
My oldest son has played baseball for most of his life. I showed him a few videos of pesäpallo and now I’m wanting to take a trip to Finland just to take him to a game haha.
One side note about this game is that basically almost nobody in capital region cares about this sport or it’s league “Superpesis”. It’s way much more popular in rural side of the country and the most successful team “Sotkamon Jymy” comes from a town with 10k population and their pesäpallo stadium can fill almost 5k.
This was just about the only sport I liked playing as a kid! Such a fun game to play.
Pitsku > baseball/softball/pesäpallo.
American here who grew up playing baseball. I played a game of pesäpallo on a trip to Vantaa about 10 years ago and it was a blast.
Going into it I thought I’d struggle “running the wrong way” around the bases. Nope – that wasn’t a problem; it was pretty easy to adapt.
My biggest problem was I kept running when I _shouldn’t_. In American baseball, you’re taught that as soon as you make contact with the ball you start running to 1st base. (Even if there’s a chance it’s a foul ball or it’s ‘obvious’ it will be caught, you still run – because there’s a chance it stays fair or is dropped.)
That was SO deeply ingrained in me and I couldn’t shake it that day. I can’t speak for all Americans, but that was my biggest issue….
Everyone loves it in school but 95% don’t play it ever again.
MLB as an organization is anti-contemporary baseball and is pushing their definition of a “more exciting” version (ie more profitable) and even though this video is great to see, it’s part of their attempt to appear fan-forward and inspire support for rule changes
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That game looks awesome!! Wish we had it here in Sweden.
JYMYYYY!!!!!
I moved to Jyväskylä recently. I played in a game of pesäpallo last week and I loved it. I’m currently looking for a place to practice and play more regularly. If anyone knows, please tell me. I don’t speak Finnish yet so it’s hard to research.
My oldest son has played baseball for most of his life. I showed him a few videos of pesäpallo and now I’m wanting to take a trip to Finland just to take him to a game haha.
One side note about this game is that basically almost nobody in capital region cares about this sport or it’s league “Superpesis”. It’s way much more popular in rural side of the country and the most successful team “Sotkamon Jymy” comes from a town with 10k population and their pesäpallo stadium can fill almost 5k.
This was just about the only sport I liked playing as a kid! Such a fun game to play.
Pitsku > baseball/softball/pesäpallo.
American here who grew up playing baseball. I played a game of pesäpallo on a trip to Vantaa about 10 years ago and it was a blast.
Going into it I thought I’d struggle “running the wrong way” around the bases. Nope – that wasn’t a problem; it was pretty easy to adapt.
My biggest problem was I kept running when I _shouldn’t_. In American baseball, you’re taught that as soon as you make contact with the ball you start running to 1st base. (Even if there’s a chance it’s a foul ball or it’s ‘obvious’ it will be caught, you still run – because there’s a chance it stays fair or is dropped.)
That was SO deeply ingrained in me and I couldn’t shake it that day. I can’t speak for all Americans, but that was my biggest issue….
Everyone loves it in school but 95% don’t play it ever again.
MLB as an organization is anti-contemporary baseball and is pushing their definition of a “more exciting” version (ie more profitable) and even though this video is great to see, it’s part of their attempt to appear fan-forward and inspire support for rule changes