A couple of baseball links.

Great Moments in Literary Baseball
The centrefielder cannot hold....
—Willie Yeats

In the second game of a double-header in Detroit in 1919, the Boston firstbase coach began pointing his finger at the mound and gesturing wildly as Detroit pitcher Frank Kafka started his delivery. The home- plate umpire went out to the mound to ask Kafka what the hell he thought he was doing. Kafka protested that he had not committed a balk. The umpire said that a balk was not the issue and ejected Kafka from the game. The following day, after a short inquiry conducted by the American League commissioner, Kafka was permanently suspended from organized baseball. The commissioner never disclosed the nature of Kafka's violation.
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This baseball link was in Welsh. It appeared like this:

Iaith a chwaraeon

Amlieithrwydd ym myd pêl fas - erthygl ddidddorol ar bwysigwydd siarad yr un iaith â'ch pitsiwr.

Not knowing what it was about, since I am Welsh challenged, but since Morfablog links are often of interest, I clicked on it and found an article about language and my favorite baseball team.

Multilingual clubhouse makes M's communication more significant

Just listen. The world can surround you inside the Mariners' multilingual clubhouse.

Manager Lou Piniella might be talking hitting with Edgar Martinez, alternating his conversation between Spanish and English as naturally and effortlessly as a car changing lanes. Sportswriters born in Ohio, California and Missouri ask questions in English to a translator born in Japan but raised in Seattle, and he converts them to Japanese for pitcher Kazu Sasaki. All of it is over the vital issue of what kind of pitch he threw.

Players from equatorial neighbors Venezuela, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Aruba chatter in Spanish throughout the room. They bounce to a Salsa beat. Bret Boone, a fun-loving Southern California kid, horses around with Japanese star Ichiro, who smiles and gives it back to Boone.

Then there's Australian Chris Snelling. Not only does he talk in another dialect, but there is a growing suspicion that he may be from another planet.
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