Sports in Venezuela What I like the most about sports is the way they can help improve our health. But another interesting thing about sports is the Exporting of words and expression form one language to another. For example, I used to practice Baseball (Beisbol) a lot in my country (Venezuela) and it's funny but many words used in sports (And I mean in Spanish) come from English words and I will show several examples in this post: 1.- Centerfil, Is an expression that comes from the English form "Center field" And even though we have a Spanish way to say it (Jardín central) the most normal way is this Hybrid "centerfil" 2.- We normally say "¡Estás out!" Instead of saying "Estás fuera" and everybody now the meaning of "out" in Beisbol but probably many of those people will not know that OUT means fuera wherever you use it. 3.- Another funny expression is the word "Estraik" Coming from the English word "Strike" This one has no translation into Spanish in "Beisbol" jargon. We don't say "Tres golpecitos y estás fuera" We say: "Tres estraiks y estás fuera" Isn't that funny? 4.- Finally, and the base of this... The word "Beisbol". The translation into Spanish of Baseball is "Bola y base" ( A horrific expression that nobody uses, I could say that it doesn't exist in Venezuela) Beisbol is like the spanish way to write the Pronunciation of "Baseball" and is the only way we call this sport. Four out of many examples a could state here, I actually think we could create a big compendium about this.