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Aaron:
An example that is clearly not a disease metaphor is the spread of baseball
in children due to the need to recruit nine players per team.
Derek:
Oh yes, that would explain why the Orkney Ba' Game (100 players per side) is the world's most popular sport.
For Ba' Game pictures see:
http://www.charles-tait.co.uk/bagame/mensgames/ny2002/bany2002.html
Actually there may be something more like 250 players per team, and as you can see from one of the pictures, a Korean TV crew is covering the event. So what is then predicted? Rapid spread to Korea? The Pyongyang Ba' Game?
http://www.geocities.com/derek_gatherer/index.htm
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