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<blockquote data-quote="Hazey" data-source="post: 128285"><p>As you were helpfully told above, mlb.com is the home of Major League Baseball, good site with lots of highlights. If you went the best clips from through out the season, from the mlb.com homepage, pick one team's website through the drop down menu in the top left of the page (where it says 'Team Sites' in grey), and when you get onto one of the pages, hover your mouse over 'Multimedia' (just to the right of where you clicked on the 'Team Sites' tab before) and scroll down to the 'Top Plays Archive' - this gives you a list of all of the top plays from the players of that particular team over the past 3 and a half years, up until the present day.</p><p></p><p>Alternatively, if you can get Channel 5 (in the UK), baseball is shown at 1.00am Sunday night and Wednesday night (so technicaally 1am monday morning and thursday morning respectively, if you see what I mean) and you can watch a whole game.</p><p></p><p>The best thing to do is to pick a team - just like with any sport, it has to be the one that just feels right, so try and watch a couple of games (obviously they are late night, so you can record them and then watch then whenever you can) and you will see several different teams play. The most important thing is to give it a long enough try - just like any sport, the first game you see <em>may</em> not be the best game in the world, or it may be the best game of baseball in 50 years! Baseball, a bit like cricket and golf, also takes a bit of knowledge and appreciation of the skills and aims of the game to be able to enjoy it as a spectator sport properly - I've been watching for about a year and a half now on Channel 5, and everyday on mlb.com for highlights, news and results, and it took me probably 4 or 5 months to really understand the game properly (being an Englishman, and not brought up with the game), and about a year and a half to fully appreciate it (by that, I mean understand some of the things that at first seem meaningless or trivial, but are actually crucial, and to be able to know how rare and what an accomplishment throwing a no-hitter like Justin Verlander did within the last month is) - though it will take me much longer to learn the history of the game!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hazey, post: 128285"] As you were helpfully told above, mlb.com is the home of Major League Baseball, good site with lots of highlights. If you went the best clips from through out the season, from the mlb.com homepage, pick one team's website through the drop down menu in the top left of the page (where it says 'Team Sites' in grey), and when you get onto one of the pages, hover your mouse over 'Multimedia' (just to the right of where you clicked on the 'Team Sites' tab before) and scroll down to the 'Top Plays Archive' - this gives you a list of all of the top plays from the players of that particular team over the past 3 and a half years, up until the present day. Alternatively, if you can get Channel 5 (in the UK), baseball is shown at 1.00am Sunday night and Wednesday night (so technicaally 1am monday morning and thursday morning respectively, if you see what I mean) and you can watch a whole game. The best thing to do is to pick a team - just like with any sport, it has to be the one that just feels right, so try and watch a couple of games (obviously they are late night, so you can record them and then watch then whenever you can) and you will see several different teams play. The most important thing is to give it a long enough try - just like any sport, the first game you see [i]may[/i] not be the best game in the world, or it may be the best game of baseball in 50 years! Baseball, a bit like cricket and golf, also takes a bit of knowledge and appreciation of the skills and aims of the game to be able to enjoy it as a spectator sport properly - I've been watching for about a year and a half now on Channel 5, and everyday on mlb.com for highlights, news and results, and it took me probably 4 or 5 months to really understand the game properly (being an Englishman, and not brought up with the game), and about a year and a half to fully appreciate it (by that, I mean understand some of the things that at first seem meaningless or trivial, but are actually crucial, and to be able to know how rare and what an accomplishment throwing a no-hitter like Justin Verlander did within the last month is) - though it will take me much longer to learn the history of the game! [/QUOTE]
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