Can you name the native countries of every major leaguer? by DWC1025

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Baseball Players by Native Homeland Quiz

by DWC1025

Created Oct 16, 2009 in Sports
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	tournavy:	Oct 17th, 2009 at 02:04 GMT	1 point
	Puerto Rico is not a country. Neither is Curacao for that matter, or South Vietnam (anymore). Maybe change it to ask for "homeland" or something?

	Antithesys:	Oct 17th, 2009 at 02:04 GMT	2 points
	It might be helpful to have a warning that many answers are "countries" that aren't around anymore or aren't on the standard list of 195 Sporcle usually uses.

	Antithesys:	Oct 17th, 2009 at 02:05 GMT	1 point
	It's also worth noting that there has never, ever been a major league baseball player who was born in Africa. No doubt many have lived there at some point, but despite over sixty years of integration no player, white or black, has ever been born there.

	Sesel:	Oct 17th, 2009 at 03:54 GMT	1 point
	@Antithesys: There was once an Orioles prospect named Ntema "Papy" Ndungidi, who was born in DRC, but he had a mental breakdown before reaching the majors.

	johnlk:	Oct 28th, 2009 at 12:48 GMT	1 point
	I'm totally okay with doing "the country they were born in" rather than "the country that runs things now where the person was born," fairly cool with listing Puerto Rico and other dependent territories separately, and moderately okay with splitting up the UK into constituent countries. But the Canary Islands? What possible justification is there for splitting them off from Spain?

	DWC1025:	Nov 4th, 2009 at 21:15 GMT	0 points
	I made the Canary Islands pop up at the same time with a "Spain" answer. I broke the categories down as they appear on baseball reference, thus the discrepancies. It seemed weird having Puerto Rico, a major source of players (represented independently in the WBC) pop up with the USA though...

	cecil:	Nov 7th, 2009 at 21:16 GMT	1 point
	wales and guam are not countries either.

	thefinestmuffins:	Nov 13th, 2009 at 20:36 GMT	1 point
	South Vietnam=hello, Danny Graves!

	deej:	Nov 17th, 2009 at 03:37 GMT	1 point
	Ed Porray was born in "A Ship on the Atlantic Ocean" look it up!

	DWC1025:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 02:39 GMT	1 point
	You can thank Mr. Porray for my bonus answer, then