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To be knowledgeable about baseball is hard to fake. Like the GP said, I'd have been shot. I might know some names of players, and I might even get some of their
by dylan604 2y ago
To be knowledgeable about baseball is hard to fake. Like the GP said, I'd have been shot. I might know some names of players, and I might even get some of their positions correct. If you ask me about ERAs, RBIs, batting averages, I wouldn't have a clue. I might know a large number of teams, but I doubt I know all of them. I absolutely couldn't tell you which ones were in the NL and which were AL, nor what the differences are--something about designated hitters or not.
Also, they could just have them count three strikes using their fingers
So it's perfectly reasonable that a person of German ancestry would just not care about American sports.
- mitthrowaway2 2y agoI'm not saying it wouldn't detect spies, but a test is no good if it also results in summary executions of one in every five apple-pie Americans.
- WalterBright 2y agoWhen you're fighting for your life, yes it would be acceptable, and yes it happened.
- sorcerer-mar 2y agoThere's no evidence people were summarily executed for bad answers. People were detained through this method though
- WalterBright 2y agoOperation Greif
- sorcerer-mar 2y agoWhat was described above is someone asking another person a factoid about baseball and then shooting them if given an incorrect answer. You're referring to instances of captured spies (potentially captured by said baseball questions) being tried as spies and executed. The former did not happen, the latter did happen (which I don't think anyone here would've disputed).