Unfamiliar

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Gift Ngoepe is a South Africa-born baseball player in the United States.

Now he plays for Major League Baseball.

Unfamiliar.

In his first game of the baseball season, the Pittsburgh Pirates’ Gift Ngoepe did more than hit a ball.

In a sport unfamiliar to many South Africans, he made history.

Ngoepe is the first Major League baseball player born on the African continent.

If something is unfamiliar, you know little or nothing about it.

Unfamiliar is the opposite of familiar, which means usual or known.