Anthropologist Alan Klein’s books about this activity as a source of national pride include one partly named for “sugar” and one subtitled “A Tale of Two Laredos.” A site for this activity named Latinoamericano in Havana is the second largest of its kind in the world, while another site in San Juan’s Hato Rey district is named for a pioneer in this activity, Hiram Bithorn. Bottle caps are used in a variant of this activity called vitilla. Young boys are recruited by buscones for this activity’s academies in the Dominican Republic. This activity is less popular in the Commonwealth Caribbean than a similar sport from Britain that [emphasize] instead has bowlers and wickets. For 10 points, name this American sport whose foreign-born players have given credence to the title of “World Series.” ■END■
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 04/19/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 108.67 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 04/19/2025 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 131.00 |
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 2025-08-09 | Y | 10 | 90% | 0% | 40% | 112.89 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 103.17 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 29% | 116.00 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 107.78 |
| North | Main | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 18% | 101.82 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 81.00 |
| California | Main | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 40% | 106.00 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 8% | 103.75 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 75.50 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 36% | 103.73 |
| UK | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 100.75 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 38% | 106.75 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 93.75 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 89.80 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 13 | 100% | 0% | 15% | 102.08 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ted Harrison | Edinburgh A | Cambridge C | 26 | -5 |
| Emerson Patmore | Georgia Tech C | Huntsville A | 42 | 10 |
| Roxanne Tang | OSU A | Pitt A | 45 | -5 |
| Fahian Joy | Amherst B | Brown B | 45 | -5 |
| Tyler Turnpaugh | Georgetown B | Catholic University | 59 | 10 |
| Jake Scoville | RIT B | ESF | 62 | -5 |
| Ankit Kawade | Johns Hopkins C | Maryland B | 64 | -5 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore A | Rutgers C | 64 | 10 |
| Arun Waran | Macalester B | Iowa State | 65 | 10 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Illinois C | 68 | -5 |
| Stuart Chandler-Baas | Carleton | McMaster C | 71 | 10 |
| Neal Frankenberg | Brown A | BU | 73 | 10 |
| Uday Bhardwaj | McGill B | Toronto I | 74 | 10 |
| Ben Lanahan | Clemson A | Virginia B | 74 | 10 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Stanford A | 75 | -5 |
| Jack Stuhlman | Lehigh B | Columbia C | 75 | 10 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | UF E | 76 | 10 |
| Dylan Tanouye | Tufts B | Brandeis Lloyd George | 76 | -5 |
| Jacob Peitz | BC B | Brandeis Wilson | 76 | 10 |
| Sriram Susarla | British Columbia C | British Columbia B | 76 | 10 |
| Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran | UCSB | Claremont Pitzer | 77 | 10 |
| James McCurley | Harvard | Brown C | 78 | 10 |
| Nicholas Ryan | Lehigh A | Columbia A | 80 | 10 |
| Adam Zhang | UCI | UCLA A | 81 | 10 |
| Andrew Pham | MIT B | Amherst A | 82 | 10 |
| Ian Chow | Washington A | Simon Fraser | 82 | -5 |
| Addison Wiggins | USF | UCF B | 85 | -5 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota A | Carleton | 86 | 10 |
| Jack Granahan | Brandeis Orlando | BC A | 86 | -5 |
| Blake Enwiller | Vanderbilt A | Auburn A | 86 | -5 |
| Aditya Shivaswamy | Johns Hopkins A | NYU A | 88 | 10 |
| Aryan Desarapu | Michigan B | Chicago A | 89 | 10 |
| Suren Grigorian | Berkeley F | Berkeley E | 90 | 10 |
| Anvit Watwani | UCLA C | UCLA D | 90 | 10 |
| Josh Xu | UCLA B | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 90 | 10 |
| Zaire Gibbons | Toronto J | Toronto G | 90 | 10 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | UF C | 90 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | Georgetown A | 90 | 10 |
| Wyatt Curry | Missouri A | WashU B | 90 | 10 |
| Henry Lytle | WashU C | SIUE | 90 | 10 |
| Matthew Amante | Notre Dame C | Chicago D | 90 | 10 |
| Carter Herron | Chicago B | Purdue A | 90 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | British Columbia A | British Columbia D | 90 | 10 |
| Darren Kellis | Vanderbilt B | Auburn B | 90 | 10 |
| Elliot Cosnett | Oxford A | Sheffield C | 90 | -5 |
| Teddy Fogel | Birmingham A | Cambridge B | 90 | 10 |
| Benny Shtutman | South Carolina B | NC State | 91 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Berkeley B | 92 | 10 |
| James Meek | George Mason A | Maryland D | 92 | 10 |
| Ben Spirtas | Maryland C | VCU A | 92 | 10 |
| Austin Guo | Princeton A | Columbia B | 92 | 10 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods | WashU A | 92 | 10 |
| Ethan Burks | Huntsville B | UAB A | 92 | -5 |
| Daniel Griffaton | Syracuse | RIT A | 92 | -5 |
| Owen Linder | Binghamton A | Rochester | 92 | 10 |
| Audrey Evans | Dartmouth | Williams | 93 | 10 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | Virginia Tech B | 94 | -5 |
| Rahul Rao-Pothuraju | Rowan A | Vassar A | 94 | 10 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | Ottawa | 95 | 10 |
| Jake Meltzer | CWRU A | OSU D | 95 | 10 |
| Andrew Fisher | Sheffield A | Cambridge D | 99 | 10 |
| Aneesh Shrotriya | Purdue B | Louisville B | 100 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo " | North Carolina C | North Carolina B | 101 | 10 |
| Brendan Bridle | Queen's A | Toronto H | 102 | 10 |
| Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | George Mason B | 102 | 10 |
| Ethan Enochian | Purdue C | Notre Dame D | 102 | 10 |
| Lucas Barnes | Missouri B | Truman State | 103 | 10 |
| Osbaldo Porrua | UIC | Notre Dame A | 103 | 10 |
| Derek Li | Cornell-DII | Binghamton B | 103 | 10 |
| Joshua Koch | Michigan A | Illinois A | 104 | 10 |
| Jacob Ergueta | UF B | UF D | 105 | 10 |
| Matthew Wozniak | Michigan C | Louisville A | 105 | 10 |
| Spencer Thomas | Yale A | Cornell-UG | 105 | 10 |
| Stephen Pace | Guelph B | Toronto E | 106 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Toronto D | 106 | 10 |
| Dominic Heffron | Melbourne A | UF A | 106 | 10 |
| Frank Schuster | MSU A | OSU B | 106 | 10 |
| Thomas Glotfelty | Virginia Tech A | Liberty C | 106 | 10 |
| Tosca Zhang | NYU B | UMBC A | 106 | 10 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | Washington B | 106 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Bristol B | 106 | -5 |
| Ella Warde | Warwick A | Oxford B | 106 | 10 |
| Galen Mueller | McGill A | McMaster A | 107 | 10 |
| August Szpak | CWRU C | Kenyon B | 107 | 10 |
| Jackson Slaughter | Tennessee A | Virginia A | 107 | 10 |
| Samir Sarma | Georgia Tech D | Georgia Tech A | 107 | 10 |
| Jaz the Mononymous | Southampton B | Durham A | 108 | -5 |
| Erin Williams | James Madison | Liberty A | 109 | 10 |
| Grant Koh | Michigan D | Indiana B | 109 | 10 |
| Nathan Easow | Manchester A | Imperial C | 109 | 10 |
| Dennis Reppen | Imperial A | City St George's A | 109 | 10 |
| Aatreyo Bhattacharyya | Berkeley C | Berkeley D | 111 | 10 |
| Vikram Narasimhan | Stanford C | UCSC | 111 | -5 |
| Karthik Krishnamurthy | USC | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 111 | 10 |
| Eva Mandelbaum | Guelph A | Toronto C | 111 | 10 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | McGill C | 111 | 10 |
| Imtiaz Kidwai | Toronto F | Toronto Metropolitan | 111 | -5 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster B | Western Ontario | 111 | 10 |
| Anna Barker | UCF A | Melbourne B | 111 | 10 |
| Elise Economou | Pitt B | MSU B | 111 | 10 |
| Aditya Patnaik | OSU C | CWRU B | 111 | -5 |
| Vedh Ramesh | Penn B | George Mason C | 111 | -5 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame E | George Washington A | 111 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Chicago C | 111 | 10 |
| Patrick Boyle | Notre Dame B | Illinois B | 111 | 10 |
| John Cha | Tufts A | Bowdoin B | 111 | -5 |
| Nathan Sheffield | MIT A | Brandeis Clemenceau | 111 | 10 |
| Ben Tibbles | Sewanee A | Georgia Tech B | 111 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Alabama A | 111 | -5 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Mississippi State A | 111 | 10 |
| Jake Wingfield | Bristol B | LSE A | 111 | 0 |
| Christian Sherrington | Southampton A | Durham B | 111 | 10 |
| Sean Yang | Waterloo | Queen's B | 112 | -5 |
| Sarah Khan | Queen's B | Waterloo | 112 | 10 |
| Aleks Kozlowski | Roanoke | Tennessee B | 112 | -5 |
| Emily Snider | Liberty B | North Carolina A | 114 | -5 |
| Aidan Ross | George Washington B | Johns Hopkins B | 118 | 10 |
| Kevin Cronk | Virginia Tech B | South Carolina A | 120 | 10 |
| Ella Ridgway | BC A | Brandeis Orlando | 130 | 10 |
| Aisling Skeet | Durham A | Southampton B | 130 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Stanford B | 131 | 10 |
| Lorie Au Yeung | UCSC | Stanford C | 131 | 0 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto F | 131 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | UCF B | USF | 131 | 10 |
| Mohit Nair | CWRU D | Kenyon A | 131 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pitt A | OSU A | 131 | 10 |
| Sai Subramanian | CWRU B | OSU C | 131 | 10 |
| Graham Troy | North Carolina A | Liberty B | 131 | 10 |
| Alina Moore | Tennessee B | Roanoke | 131 | 10 |
| Abbi Tesreau | George Mason C | Penn B | 131 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | Johns Hopkins C | 131 | 10 |
| Raymond Jiang | Illinois C | Indiana A | 131 | 10 |
| Lucas Guan | Brown B | Amherst B | 131 | 10 |
| Graham Lucas | Bowdoin B | Tufts A | 131 | 10 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis Lloyd George | Tufts B | 131 | 10 |
| Dexter Hine | Simon Fraser | Washington A | 131 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Bruin A | 131 | 10 |
| Misbah Meghani | UAB A | Huntsville B | 131 | 10 |
| Tate Osborne | Auburn A | Vanderbilt A | 131 | 10 |
| Daniel Hobba | Cambridge C | Edinburgh A | 131 | 10 |
| Alex Irvine | Sheffield C | Oxford A | 131 | 10 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF | RIT B | 131 | 10 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT A | Syracuse | 131 | 10 |