Emerging from the shimmering heat in the desert outskirts of Dubai is an unfamiliar sight in the Middle East, a baseball field. Now that it's built, though, one question remains: Will the fans come? That's the challenge for the inaugural season of Baseball United, a four-team, monthlong contest that began Friday at the new Barry Larkin Field. It's named for an investor who is a former Cincinnati Reds shortstop, has the exact dimensions of the field at Yankee Stadium in New York,
"It's called E1. If you happened to be in Jeddah in January or Lagos last month, you may have seen the brightly colored boats - called RaceBirds - slicing through open water at almost 60 mph. "When you step in these boats, you feel like you're in a spaceship," Dani Clos, a pilot for DJ Steve Aoki's team and a former F1 test driver, said during a recent press event. The inaugural season launched in 2024."
