As you may know, Getting Blanked’s inforgraphic specialist Craig
Robinson is rare breed indeed: a baseball-loving Brit currently
living in Mexico City. Craig returned to his homeland recently
and happened upon another rare sight: live baseball in London.
Enjoy Craig’s report on British baseball!  Finsbury Park is in
the north London borough of Haringey. At ten o’clock on a Sunday
morning, people are doing what most people in parks around the
world are probably doing at that time of the day on a Sunday:
jogging, walking the dog, cycling. In the northeast corner of
the park, though, there’s a cricket pitch. A cricket pitch with
that is no longer used for cricket. A cricket pitch has been
converted into that least British of things: a baseball field.
I was there because there was a National Baseball League
doubleheader taking place. Essex Arrows (7-9) vs. London Mets
(11-3). The National Baseball League is, as the name kind of
suggests, the top level of British baseball. It’s a nine-team
league at the top of a