‘American positivity’: Baseball popular with British fans

By GREGORY KATZ
LONDON — America’s national pastime made a positive impression on British fans the first time they got to see the game up close and personal on British soil.
That may have been helped by a warm, picture-perfect day in often overcast London — baseball weather at its best, played on a midsummer’s eve with sunlight that seemed to never fade — and by a slugfest that, to say the least, emphasized power over precision pitching.
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