Then and now: baseball

A couple of years ago I wrote a post on City-cost about how, thanks to Shohei Ohtani, I had become a baseball fan. And I still am. I am very excited for the World Baseball Classic which is on in early March. But I was in Japan more than 20 years before I finally became a baseball fan. I had been introduced to baseball early on in Japan though; playing it, that is. 

When I first came to Japan it was as a university exchange student. The university I went to have at least one sports class every week - even though we were studying business! The sports teacher was obviously a fan of baseball, because most often we played baseball during the dedicated periods to sport. Although, I played it in university at the time, I did not watch it on TV or follow it in any other way. 

It was really fun to play baseball almost weekly while I was student here. Thankfully, I had played rounders at school in Ireland, so I wasn't completely clueless. But despite playing baseball at university here I didn't really pick up the rules or lingo until I started watching baseball on TV here, about three / four years ago!

Do you watch baseball? Have you ever played it here?