[HPforGrownups] Pre-Hogwarts - Hermione - Clubs - Cricket

[Rowena Grunnion-Ffitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 26579



--- Amy Z <aiz24 at hotmail.com> wrote:

Rowena wrote:
> > Nor will I ever forget
> > the expressions of total bewilderment on the faces
> of my American Who Fan Club as we watched the
Cricket
> > game in 'Black Orchid'. Nor did the explanations
> of our British born president help much - Quidditch
is
> > simple by comparison.
> 
> Just to entertain myself recently, I tried to
> explain the rules of 
> baseball to an imaginary passenger
>and just getting
> through the 
> basics was hard, never mind things like the infield
> fly rule and 
> ground rule doubles.  My admiration for Little
> League coaches grows 
> ever greater.

    I'm aware baseball has many elaborate and esoteric
rules *but* at least the object of the game is clear;
you make points by circling the bases and crossing
home ahead of the ball. This is more than one can say
for Cricket - how *do* you make points again?  
    Quidditch also has a fairly simple objective; get
the quaffles through the hoops and catch the snitch.
Even I can grasp that much.
 



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