Baseball Popularity
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Re: Baseball Popularity
[ Author: westbaystars | Posted: Jan 7, 2004 8:03 AM
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Well, professionally there are 12 teams in Japan, each with as many as 70 players (including the farm teams). That makes about 840 players.
If you're talking at all levels, divide the population by something between 20 (percentage of people in the company I work for who play) and 5000 (taking into account companies that don't have a team, children under the age of 6 - although my son's been playing catch and swinging a bat since he was 3, and a wide range of socio-economic factors that might come into play. Is that rough enough?
If you're talking at all levels, divide the population by something between 20 (percentage of people in the company I work for who play) and 5000 (taking into account companies that don't have a team, children under the age of 6 - although my son's been playing catch and swinging a bat since he was 3, and a wide range of socio-economic factors that might come into play. Is that rough enough?
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Could you give me an estimate of the numbers of people in Japan (and Korea if possible) who play baseball? An estimate will be enough. Thank you for your courtesy.