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A baseball love affair: Why Brits should flock back to London MLB games

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Fenway Park is the famous home of Major League Baseball’s Boston Red Sox
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With Major League Baseball’s return to London for regular-season games in 2023, 2024 and 2026 confirmed on Monday, the Evening Standard’s David Marsland explains the origins of his love affair with a sport that has never quite taken off in the UK...

True story: I fell in love with baseball at the same time as I fell in love with my wife. She’s no great fan of the game itself, but when you’re born in Boston the spotlights of Fenway Park are bound to shine on you from time to time. “My uncle’s a big fan of the Red Sox,” she told me when we were planning our first trip to see her family in Massachusetts.

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