Re: RARA-AVIS: Batter up!

From: Girvan Burnside ( gburnsid@maths.dundee.ac.uk)
Date: 12 Sep 2000


If they're used over here, it's probably more likely to be as a weapon than to actually play baseball.

Girvan

Mark Sullivan wrote:

> I just ran into it again, in Ken Bruen's Taming the Alien, a London
> wideboy (that's the right term, right?) using a baseball bat as his tool
> of persuasion. I've noticed this in a number of recent Brit books. Do
> they now play baseball in the UK? If not, where are they all getting
> their baseball bats? What store stocks them, Villains R Us?
>
> Mark
>

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