An Englishman fingers baseball exactly

Joseph O’Neill, a 44-year-old Irishman who grew up in the Netherlands, educated at Cambridge and lives in New York since 1998 has still clung to cricket. He plays for the Staten Island Cricket Club, one of America’s oldest cricket club.

Asked why he still plays cricket, he said because it is his “athletic mother tongue” and to learn baseball, would be like taking up a foreign language. Even if he became proficient, he wouldn’t get the jokes or the poetry.

Well-said Joseph, the novelist in you shines through.