Le base ball , Assimilation, and Ethnic Identity: The National Pastime in Franco-America

Jonathan Gosnell

doi:10.3828/qs.2018.16

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This article explores the meaning of baseball in areas of New England where immigrants of French-Canadian descent settled permanently. It examines representations of the sport in the French-languag...

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Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.smith.edu/frn_facpubs Part of the French and Francophone Language and Literature Commons
Historians and sociologists have long studied how immigrant groups in the United States have defined themselves through a variety of forms of athletic competition, Irish-Americans and Italian-American for instance, but rarely have the competitive exploits of French-descended people drawn much attention
One does not typically think of baseball being played in French or as an expression of French sporting prowess, in the United States or in North America generally

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Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.smith.edu/frn_facpubs Part of the French and Francophone Language and Literature Commons. It examines sporting news in the French ethnic press of Massachusetts notably to underscore ways in which the game of baseball both affirmed the assimilation of a working-class, Catholic, and culturally French-Canadian group, as well as helped to articulate its French ethnic distinction.

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