Mash together a celebrity, a businessman and a promoter with an eye to the main chance and what do you get?
Yes, Virginia and everyone else, there really is baseball in France. And it’s been in this country for more than a century, almost from the beginning of the organized game. Surprisingly, it owes its…
It was not exactly the Yankees/Red Sox rivalry, but it was fierce: the competition between the baseball-playing artists of Pont-Aven and their counterparts in Concarneau. The two picturesque coastal towns of…
A.G. Spalding’s big bet at the base of the Eiffel Tower - that is, his staging the first professional baseball game in France during the Universal Exposition of 1889 — paid off. A single game by the pros and…
Up and down, up again and down. That pretty much tells the story of French baseball. Today it seems to be edging up, albeit slowly. There are about 13,000 players, about a thousand added each year, and there are teams all over the country, but none of them are professional.
