A kid hits a baseball during the MLB First Pitch Festival, at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, in London, Thursday, June 22, 2023
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IN A COUNTRY full of football, rugby and cricket stars, young Alex Lintern went in a different direction on dress-up day at school.
“I was two people: a baseball player and Spider-Man,” the six-year-old Londoner said.
That was shortly after the World Baseball Classic, where Britain’s first-ever win at the tournament sparked some interest back home. Harry Ford, the 20-year-old American catcher with British parents, became a mini-celebrity.
Baseball enthusiasts in Britain — there’s more than you’d think, they say — hope to build on that momentum with the return of Major League Baseball to London this weekend when the St Louis Cardinals face the Chicago Cubs at London Stadium.
