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Historically, these kinds of questions were kept relatively simple, like how many bases are there, how many strikes, how many balls, how many innings, what's the name of the referee (answer: umpire), etc. They're also a product of a different time when baseball was much more popular in the US among US youth, with a much stronger youth monoculture, where the only way you didn't play baseball as a kid would be if you were a loner or in a wheelchair, neither of which were consistent with becoming an officer 80-90 years ago.


Wouldn't that also apply to the spies, if they grew up in the US?


It would seem like a German who spoke perfect American English bc they had grown up here would be able to answer these basic facts


>how many bases are there, how many strikes, how many balls, how many innings, what's the name of the referee (answer: umpire), et

What percentage of Germans who grew up in the US and speak perfect American English can't answer those basic questions correctly?




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