Two of Major League Baseball’s most storied franchises will play a pair of games in London next season, in the league’s first regular season action in Europe. The Red Sox and Yankees games next June at London Stadium, capacity 55,000, will make baseball the last major American sport to enter the European market.
And yes, British baseball advocates say, the crowds that watch the games at the “ballpark” — the usual home of West Ham United FC — and on television will have a good enough idea of what’s going on to follow the game.
“I would go back to the NFL when they came to the United Kingdom.