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It's because in the second world war the use of (English) loanwords was kinda prohibited but baseball was really popular so they had to come up with another word.
It’s easy to say sports in Japanese basketball is basukettobōru football is futtobōru soccer is sakkā tennis is tenisu golf is gorufu and baseball is yakyū wait what’s up with baseball
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Thank you... Now I can rest
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It’s like that country I don’t remember which one that says pineapple instead of Ananas haha it’s crazy.pic.twitter.com/eRSkHvPOlV
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In Spanish it’s not only Ananas
Piña is used to refer to 
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isn’t volleyball both barēbōru AND haikyuu
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volleyball is ballet
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what do you eat after a baseball game? yakyuuniku!
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Why not Major or Cross Game? (This shows how old i am xD)
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