OAKLAND — A 5-year-old Liam Hendriks, like most other Australian kids, had to decide on a summer sport to pursue.
T-ball or cricket?
Tradition might’ve pulled Hendriks toward cricket — a more popular sport among Australians than baseball — but there was just something a bit more logical about T-ball for a young, short-attention spanned Hendriks and his friends.
“T-ball is thirty minutes long every Saturday and cricket starts turning into three hours, six hours,” Hendriks said. “And my parents were supportive of anything I wanted to do, so they were going to be at every game regardless.