Major League Baseball wants to play ball, exhibition games or even regular-season games, in Europe. But the ballpark it is eyeing for possible games lies not in big sports centers, like London with its Wembley Stadium, or Paris, with the Stade de France, but a midsize Dutch town, Hoofddorp, on land that until about 150 years ago lay deep under water.

Building it (amid grumbles) and hoping fans come

Major League Baseball wants to play ball, exhibition games or even regular-season games, in Europe. But the ballpark it is eyeing for possible games lies not in big sports centers, like London with its Wembley Stadium, or Paris, with the Stade de France, but a midsize Dutch town, Hoofddorp, on land that until about 150 years ago lay deep under water.


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