fbpx
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to header right navigation
  • Skip to site footer
insidetailgating.com logo

Inside Tailgating

  • Food
  • Drink
  • Gear
    • Grills
  • Tips
  • Activities
  • Homegating
  • Contact
  • Food
  • Drink
  • Gear
  • Tips
  • Activities
  • Homegating
  • About Us
  • Magazine
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
  • Pinterest
5 things to note about Red Sox-Yankees series in London 2

5 things to note about Red Sox-Yankees series in London

By Carroll Walton
Published: 06/24/2019
FacebookTweetPinEmail

Last Updated on 06/24/2021 by Inside Tailgating

So there’s going to be some morning drinkin’ for your Red Sox-Yankees watch parties this weekend if you’re celebrating the first Major League Baseball regular season games held in Europe when these two historical rivals square off in London. Game 1 is Saturday starting at 1:10 p.m. Eastern, and Sunday’s first pitch is 10:10 a.m. To get you ready with a little knowledge , we’ve compiled a list of 5 things you need to know about the upcoming series. Here goes:

1. Don’t let all the Yankee caps fool you. Just because a lot of people in London wear the garb doesn’t mean that England is teeming with Yankee fans. Many wear them purely for the fashion statement. One such man was asked recently by a reporter from the Boston Globe if he could name one single Yankee player. Babe Ruth was his answer. Hey, that’s a pretty good Yankee if you’re going to name one….but you get the point.

ITmanfred

2. Why exactly is MLB playing this series in London again? Commissioner Rob Manfred explained to reporters after the recent Owners Meetings . “I hope that the two games in London will be viewed as sort of a groundbreaking, artistic success. We have devoted a tremendous amount of resources. We’re taking probably the greatest rivalry – certainly in baseball, if not in sports – for two games. We sold like crazy right out of the gate in terms of tickets and sold the two games out in a very short period of time. And we’re hoping it generates buzz around the game that will give us a toehold into a very important market in Europe.”

3. While we were reading that Manfred quote in a terrific story about the upcoming series by MLB.com’s Jon Paul Morosi, we also read where Morosi explained that according to author David Block the game of baseball is actually returning home. Block makes the compelling case that baseball was invented not in Cooperstown, N.Y. but in England in the mid-1700s, a quarter century before the U.S. gained its independence.

ITlondon2

4. The series is being played at London Stadium, which was built for the 2012 Olympics and is home to West Ham United of the Premier League. After two years of planning, MLB, led by groundskeeping guru Murray Cook, is using just 21 days to convert a soccer pitch into a baseball field. They will play on synthetic turf. Cook had originally hoped to use natural grass but given the fact that they’re tearing down the field five days after the series is over – and plan to play another series at London Stadium next season – turf made the most sense. I know all of this, by the way, because I wrote an article for Baseball America on the subject.

5. Speaking of next year, Manfred has already announced that the MLB series in London in 2020 will feature another pretty good rivalry: the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals will face off at London Stadium on June 13 and 14 of next year.

  • Carroll Walton
    Carroll Walton

    Senior Contributor for Inside Tailgating magazine and insidetailgating.com, freelance writer and author of "Ballplayer," the Chipper Jones biography that came out in April of 2017. Former sportswriter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, wife, mother of three young sons and certified Dookie.

    View all posts

FacebookTweetPinEmail
Tips
Previous Post:5 cool new products in sports merchandise 45 cool new products in sports merchandise
Next Post:Coleman RoadTrip LXE tops “Select 6” portable grillsColeman RoadTrip LXE tops "Select 6" portable grills 1
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Inside Tailgating
  • About Us
  • Opt-out preferences
  • Terms of Use
  • Contact us
  • Shop

Copyright © 2023 · Inside Tailgating · All Rights Reserved · Powered by BizBudding

Manage Cookie Consent
We use cookies to optimize our website and our service.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}
Share this ArticleLike this article? Email it to a friend!

Email sent!