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Chukna on scored.co
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Finnish version of baseball, it's a little different from American baseball. The guy who created it visited the USA in 1907 and saw the game and wanted to bring it to Finland, but he couldn't remember the rules or the game correctly, so he made a Finnish-style baseball game. It's actually one of the most played sports in Finland and a very typical school P.E sport. I have also heard that the game designer (Pihkala) was a staunch nationalist who realized that sports could be used as a tool to train young men for war without them even realizing it. He explicitly designed pesäpallo to act as stealth basic training for the infantry (throwing grenades, zig-zag running to avoid getting shot, and sharpshooting).
In Finnish baseball the pitcher stands right next to the batter and tosses the ball straight up into the air over the home plate, and the ball must stay inside the stadium.
In Finnish baseball the pitcher stands right next to the batter and tosses the ball straight up into the air over the home plate, and the ball must stay inside the stadium.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDrLcPxSBRk