Harold Reynolds: Canadians Don't Grow Up Playing Baseball, Can't Catch Foul Balls
By Kyle Koster
“There’s not a lot of people who grew up playing baseball in Canada,” the FS1 analyst opined. “They aren’t used to catching balls in the stands.”
It didn’t go over well. In fact, it did the near-impossible: it got our notoriously kind neighbors to the north angry. One of them was perennial All-Star Larry Walker.
I won 7 gold gloves. I think part of winning them was cause I could catch. ?
— Larry Walker (@Cdnmooselips33) October 12, 2015
It’s not really worth getting outraged over but Canada has a rich and deep baseball history. The country’s first game took place in 1838, seven years before Alexander Cartwright drew up his rules.
Luckily, Fox Sports Live hosts — and Canadians — Dan O’Toole and Jay Onrait were around to diffuse the volatile situation with an Instagram post.