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The start of the Mexican Wave

Sporting Witness by BBC

Jul 18, 202610:50Sports & Recreation

On 15 October 1981, at a baseball game between the Oakland Athletics and the New York Yankees in the USA, American cheerleader Krazy George Henderson got fans to stand up and sit down in sections around the stadium. Over...

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