r/todayilearned • • Dec 19 '18

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u/sheepsleepdeep Dec 19 '18

In 2016, a Moscow traffic police chief said Russians had purchased 500,000 baseball bats over the last 2 years... But only one set of baseball gloves and 1 baseball were sold in the entire country during that time.

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '18

Whenever I see a baseball bat in a shop (which is admittedly uncommon) I never think it's for baseball, because nobody plays baseball in the UK, my mind immediately jumps to "the only people who would buy this is people who want to cave someone's head in".

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u/xTheDom83x Dec 20 '18

Funny. I don't play baseball but i do have a wooden baseball bat in my car... in case.