Baseball
John Moores was a keen baseball fan and created a league for Liverpool based teams in 1933. He later enticed Everton players such as Dixie Dean to the game. In 1938 he donated the John Moores trophy to Great Britain national team for beating the United States Olympic team four games to one in a five-game series. The Great Britain team consisted largely of Canadians from the Yorkshire-Lancashire league.
For his efforts, he was inducted into the British Baseball Hall of Fame in October 2009.
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Famous quotes containing the word baseball:
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