tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53270370301527475702024-02-07T22:49:57.840+01:00Histoire oubliée d'un sport méconnuChronique du Baseball en France sous la IIIème RépubliqueUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger81125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5327037030152747570.post-47117606818216914632023-04-25T17:23:00.002+02:002023-04-25T17:41:05.628+02:00Vie et mort du Paris Baseball Club<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Paris+Baseball+Club. Trois mots
qui ont longtemps posé de sérieux problèmes à votre serviteur. D’une part parce
qu’il y a plusieurs villes portant le nom de Paris qui abritent un ou même plusieurs
clubs de baseball : près d’une vingtaine aux USA, notamment au Texas ou dans le
Tennessee, autant dire que la recherche sur des sites américains d’archives est
quelque peu parasitée. D’autre part parce que ces termes ont trop souvent été
utilisés dans la presse anglophone pour désigner l’un quelconque des nombreux
clubs de baseball à Paris, France. D’où la forte tentation d’écarter assez
rapidement toute combinaison de ces trois termes apparaissant dans les
résultats de recherche. Il y a pourtant bien eu un club portant très exactement
ce nom. Son histoire, que je vous dévoile ici, est assez intéressante et
chamboule certaines convictions sur la pratique de ce sport à la Belle Epoque
en France.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">La première grande surprise a été
celle de constater, à la lecture d’un article de La Revue des sports du 13 mars
1889, que le <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/01/sept-petits-innings-pour-convaincre-les.html">match exhibition du 8 mars</a> n’était pas resté sans effet sur la
communauté américaine de Paris, comme nous aurions pu le croire. Certes,
l’existence de clubs d’étudiants ou de jeunes gens plus ou moins organisés
avant cet événement était connue et il était légitime de s’imaginer que leur
activité avait probablement bondi à partir du printemps, mais ce qui était
jusqu’à présent passé inaperçu était la création d’un grand club immédiatement
après le passage de Spalding et ses joueurs, club qui allait régner en maître
de très longues années sur la capitale et possiblement même une partie de
l’Europe. Point de départ de notre enquête, cet article dit ceci :<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i></i></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><i>« Les élèves Américains
de l’atelier Julian organisent en ce moment deux équipes de base-ball. D’autre
part notre confrère le New York Herald produit la lettre suivante :
« Comme le base-ball a été favorablement accueilli après la partie de
vendredi dernier, il y a lieu de supposer que nombre de jeunes gens joueraient
ce jeu avec plaisir si l’on pouvait les réunir. Nous ne connaissons pas de
meilleur moyen d’arriver jusqu’à eux que par l’intermédiaire de notre journal
en invitant tous ceux qui voudraient pratiquer ce sport à envoyer leurs noms et
leurs adresses au soussigné, pour organiser les préliminaires d’une
association : M. Summer, 16 avenue Carnot </i>[Paris]<i>. Avis aux
amateurs. » »<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></b></span></span></span></a></i></blockquote><i><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></i><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span></span></p><a name='more'></a>Un article de l’American register
for Paris and the continent<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
corrobore l’événement et le relate ainsi dans son édition du 16 mars 1889 :<o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">« <i>A peine 48 heures après
avoir applaudi les joueurs</i> [des équipes professionnelles]<i>, une demande a
été adressée au préfet de la Seine afin de permettre à un club de base-ball
d'utiliser un terrain dans le bois de Boulogne, près de La Muette. Cette
permission étant donnée, un certain nombre de messieurs américains, pour la
plupart des artistes, ont été invités par le sculpteur C. E. Dallin à former une
société de base-ball, qui a rapidement dépassé la quarantaine de membres et
dont M. Dallin fut nommé secrétaire.</i> »</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3bDkCn8QUGcmKjp1tn0likwtu8QeJXY9kOa5mk-orHT0Qh1YLdkKqFCv8OutP32cQoBqKwxOjPdOFEjuzuNM4cT4ougSHzj49YM03U9mEW1MqmsnsWg1jAmnf1pOfqTBFFcMmxhXnzcOod0fiqqmk4jdBzuSKsqdCvNzq6Ep44d8SuQa3GkzvsLoZBQ/s507/Cyrus_Edwin_Dallin.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="507" data-original-width="330" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3bDkCn8QUGcmKjp1tn0likwtu8QeJXY9kOa5mk-orHT0Qh1YLdkKqFCv8OutP32cQoBqKwxOjPdOFEjuzuNM4cT4ougSHzj49YM03U9mEW1MqmsnsWg1jAmnf1pOfqTBFFcMmxhXnzcOod0fiqqmk4jdBzuSKsqdCvNzq6Ep44d8SuQa3GkzvsLoZBQ/w416-h640/Cyrus_Edwin_Dallin.jpg" width="416" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Cyrus Edwin Dallin autour de 1880</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">De manière très utile, l’article
précise le nom de certains des membres - curieusement aussi leur position en
défense sur le terrain, ce qui nous permet d’en déduire qu’ils avaient déjà eu
l’occasion de jouer ensemble - et indique les modalités du premier rendez-vous
fixé :<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">« <i>Househalter (pitcher), Herman
(catcher), Niell et Kenyon (première base), Brown (second base), Lasar
(short-stop), Peters (center field), Browne (right field), Dallin (left field),
Longman, Hamilton, Barlow, Barnard, Adams, Vedder, Hake, Karshl, Felton, Wood,
Walker, Harwood, South, Wilbour, Martin, Thomas, Norris, Graham, Parker,
Boyden, Starkweather, Levy, Foss, Smedley, Fisher, Grafly, Richardson, Stahl et
Kophmann. </i></span><i>La première réunion se tiendra à deux heures
aujourd’hui </i>[le samedi 16 mars 1889]<i> au Bois de Boulogne, sur la pelouse
face à La Muette.</i> »</blockquote><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Vous l’aurez probablement
remarqué, Summer n’est pas mentionné, il y a deux joueurs de première base et il
manque le joueur de troisième base, mais c’est presqu’un détail car nous tenons
en fait ici le premier roster d’une équipe de baseball en France et
possiblement en Europe ! Alors essayons d’y voir plus clair.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Dallin, de son nom complet Cyrus
Edwin Dallin, Américain originaire de Springville dans l’Utah âgé de 27 ans au
printemps 1889, étudie la sculpture<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn3" name="_ednref3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
à l’Académie Julian puis auprès de Henri Chapu mais est également un grand sportif
: Figurez-vous qu’à Saint-Louis en 1904, il remportera non seulement la
médaille d’or<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn4" name="_ednref4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn4;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> lors de
l’Exposition Universelle pour sa sculpture <i>Protest of the Sioux</i> mais
aussi la médaille de bronze par équipe au tir à l’arc lors des Jeux Olympiques !
Notez d’ailleurs au passage qu’il est établi qu’un grand nombre de ses œuvres
trouvent leur inspiration dans les croquis qu’il a faits à Paris en 1889 des
Sioux Lakotas de la troupe de Buffalo Bill (<a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/01/yee-ha-buffalo-bill-la-rescousse.html">lire l’article à ce sujet</a>). Dallin
passera une bonne partie de sa vie entre les continents américain et européen
et il est extrêmement difficile de déterminer son activité réelle au sein de ce
club ; on sait toutefois qu’il était à Boston en 1890, puis qu’il revint
étudier à Paris auprès du sculpteur Jean Dampt à partir de 1897. <o:p></o:p></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbUNvyEoKQyeNU-Z7r4Pl2PIKC1lN7pB4QLNyCMY0iUZpKX1ds89A6Obj3FltZQFuo6dlUVu1VbtrUEySEeBQA-pabHZo49XLEMbtfx6BvctdVzxH-ptYRVXX-URe5pvANKPkZN4R3O-YiHOlOIeRN0OYX6HI-dcrzFBWragruCo74Apxx8VlrWkyJAw/s471/Medicinemandallin.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="382" data-original-width="471" height="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbUNvyEoKQyeNU-Z7r4Pl2PIKC1lN7pB4QLNyCMY0iUZpKX1ds89A6Obj3FltZQFuo6dlUVu1VbtrUEySEeBQA-pabHZo49XLEMbtfx6BvctdVzxH-ptYRVXX-URe5pvANKPkZN4R3O-YiHOlOIeRN0OYX6HI-dcrzFBWragruCo74Apxx8VlrWkyJAw/w640-h520/Medicinemandallin.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The Medicine Man</i>,
sculpture de Dallin, devant le Grand Palais pendant l’Exposition
Universelle de Paris en 1900 (présentée au public sous le titre <i>Apothicaire</i>
– sic !).</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Norris est un nom que nous
connaissons déjà : il s’agit à n’en pas douter de Benjamin Franklin Norris
Jr., également étudiant à l’Académie Julian à la même époque mais dans la
section peinture. La présence de son nom sur cette liste confirme la théorie
avancée dans l’article que nous lui avions consacré (<a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/01/this-animal-of-buldy-jones-par-frank.html">à lire ici</a>). Après son
séjour parisien et son expérience de la sculpture, Norris reprendra des études
plus conformes aux yeux de ses parents à Berkeley l’année suivante
jusqu’en 1894, puis à Harvard.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Pour ce qui est de
l’identification des autres membres et puisque ces deux-là étaient bien à
l’Académie Julian, pourquoi ne pas parcourir en quête d’indices la liste des
artistes étrangers qui ont été élèves dans cette fameuse école ? On y
retrouve très vite certains des noms cités<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn5" name="_ednref5" style="mso-endnote-id: edn5;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[v]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
à savoir celui des Américains Henry Rodman <b>Kenyon</b> (élève de 1882 à 1888),
Charles Francis <b>Browne</b> (à partir de 1887), Edward Herbert <b>Barnard</b>
(de 1885 à 1889), Simon Harmon <b>Vedder</b> (à partir de 1887), James Taylor <b>Harwood</b>
(de 1885 à 1889), originaire de l’Utah comme Dallin<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn6" name="_ednref6" style="mso-endnote-id: edn6;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>,
Frederick C. <b>Martin</b> (de 1889 à 1890), Charles S. <b>Parker</b> (aussi
élève de Chapu à cette époque) ou Lawton S. <b>Parker</b> (de 1889 à 1890), Dwight
Frederick <b>Boyden </b>(en 1888 et expose au salon de Paris de 1888 à 1890), Francis
Henry <b>Richardson</b> (élève et expose à Paris en 1889 et 1890), Charles <b>Grafly</b>
(aussi élève de Chapu à cette époque), sans oublier celui du Britannique naturalisé
Américain John Noble <b>Barlow</b>, (de 1887 à 1889). En clair, à moins que ce
ne soit une improbable série de coïncidences, le noyau dur des membres de ce
club est constitué de talentueux étudiants de l’Académie Julian dont l’atelier
principal se trouve Passage des Panoramas (<a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/01/la-communaute-americaine-de-france.html">lire l’article sur l’American ArtAssociation</a>). Chose extraordinaire, un grand nombre de ces jeunes gens se
retrouveront à exposer certaines de leurs œuvres lors de l’Exposition
Universelle de Paris en 1900, côte à côte avec Douglas Tilden<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn7" name="_ednref7" style="mso-endnote-id: edn7;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Quelques mois plus tard, en 1890,
un Américain résidant à Paris depuis plusieurs années, M. G. Thompson, propose
son aide et prend la présidence du club avec de fermes intentions<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn8" name="_ednref8" style="mso-endnote-id: edn8;" title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[viii]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>. Fervent
amateur de baseball, il est très heureux de constater que ce jeu trouve des
adeptes en Europe et se propose d’ouvrir le club à tous ceux qui souhaitent
s'essayer à ce sport. Les dirigeants du club espèrent ainsi que leur exemple
encouragera d'autres jeunes gens à s'intéresser au baseball et que ce jeu
finira par s'imposer dans le paysage de France comme il l'a fait aux
États-Unis. A la lecture de certains articles, nous serions parfois en droit de
nous demander si les facétieux membres de ce club n’ont pas pris un malin
plaisir à brouiller les pistes chez certains journalistes :<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Ainsi peut-on lire : <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i></i></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><i>« Le baseball est un jeu
d’adresse et de force, qui consiste à renvoyer une balle lancée par
l’adversaire, et à courir autour des bases. <u>Les joueurs </u>sont armés de
grandes battes et <u>sont vêtus de blouses blanches<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn9" name="_ednref9" style="mso-endnote-id: edn9;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ix]</span></u></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a></u>.
Les équipes sont composées de neuf joueurs chacune. »<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn10" name="_ednref10" style="mso-endnote-id: edn10;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[x]</span></b></span></span></span></a></i></blockquote><i><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn10" name="_ednref10" style="mso-endnote-id: edn10;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></i><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Ou :<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i></i></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><i>« Nous avons cru
comprendre, d'après les explications qu'on a bien voulu nous donner, que le
baseball, tout en ayant quelques rapports avec le cricket, est cependant
beaucoup plus intéressant. <u>Les joueurs sont armés de grandes battes, semblables
à celles qu'on emploie pour le jeu de quilles</u>, et le coup est donné de
manière à projeter la balle à une très grande distance. Nous souhaitons de tout
cœur que ce jeu soit adopté par les Parisiens, car il n'est pas sans intérêt,
et il pourrait bien les aider à supporter les longues heures d'attente du grand
amour. »<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn11" name="_ednref11" style="mso-endnote-id: edn11;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xi]</span></b></span></span></span></a></i></blockquote><i><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn11" name="_ednref11" style="mso-endnote-id: edn11;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></i><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Ou bien encore :<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i></i></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><i>« Le Baseball, comme nous
l'avons déjà expliqué à nos lecteurs, est un jeu de balle où deux équipes
s'affrontent. Le jeu consiste à frapper <u>une petite balle en caoutchouc</u>
avec une batte et à courir autour d'une série de bases pour marquer des points.
<u>Les joueurs sont toujours en mouvement, courant et sautant pour attraper la
balle ou pour empêcher les autres de la prendre.</u> »<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn12" name="_ednref12" style="mso-endnote-id: edn12;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xii]</span></b></span></span></span></a></i></blockquote><i><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn12" name="_ednref12" style="mso-endnote-id: edn12;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></i><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Quoi qu’il en soit, le nom de ce
club ne tarde pas à apparaître dans les articles des journaux : Paris
Baseball Club. Son lieu de prédilection semble avoir été globalement le Bois de
Boulogne, mais pas nécessairement toujours au même endroit, ce qui complique souvent
les recherches : tantôt sur la pelouse face à La Muette<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn13" name="_ednref13" style="mso-endnote-id: edn13;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xiii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>,
tantôt sur celle de Bagatelle<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn14" name="_ednref14" style="mso-endnote-id: edn14;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xiv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>,
tantôt près de l'hippodrome de Longchamp<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn15" name="_ednref15" style="mso-endnote-id: edn15;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>,
tantôt encore sur un terrain prêté par la ville de Paris, situé à la porte
Maillot<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn16" name="_ednref16" style="mso-endnote-id: edn16;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xvi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>.
A l’occasion, cependant, l’équipe peut aussi se retrouver sur le Champ de Mars<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn17" name="_ednref17" style="mso-endnote-id: edn17;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xvii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>.
Rien qui permette en tout cas de conclure que « <i>Les membres du club de
Paris ont acheté un terrain</i> » et s’y sont établis de manière durable,
comme il est avancé à tort dans La Revue Illustrée en décembre 1889<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn18" name="_ednref18" style="mso-endnote-id: edn18;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xviii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Au départ, la quarantaine de
membres se répartissent en deux équipes, peut-être entre les sections Sculpture
et Peinture de l’académie, pour jouer des parties amicales. Toutefois, dès le
mois de juin, le Paris Baseball Club est occupé à organiser son premier grand
tournoi pour le dimanche 14 juillet<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn19" name="_ednref19" style="mso-endnote-id: edn19;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xix]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
et fait par la suite savoir que ses joueurs sont « <i>prêts à jouer contre
tout autre club, anglais ou américain, qui serait formé en France</i> »<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"> <a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn20" name="_ednref20" style="mso-endnote-id: edn20;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xx]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></span>.
Le club ne se contente pas seulement d’être le premier ou le plus grand, il
veut être le moteur et imprimer un mouvement.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i></i></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><i>« Le baseball est de plus
en plus populaire à Paris, et de nombreux clubs ont été créés ces dernières
années. Le Paris Baseball Club est l'un des clubs les plus actifs de la ville,
organisant régulièrement des matchs et des tournois. Le sport est encore
relativement nouveau en France, mais il est en train de gagner en popularité
grâce à des clubs comme le Paris Baseball Club. »<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn21" name="_ednref21" style="mso-endnote-id: edn21;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxi]</span></b></span></span></span></a></i></blockquote><i><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn21" name="_ednref21" style="mso-endnote-id: edn21;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></i><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">De fait, son tournoi qui se tient
les 8 et 9 août 1893 ne réunit pas moins de quatre clubs différents<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn22" name="_ednref22" style="mso-endnote-id: edn22;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Voici quelques-uns des adversaires
affrontés par le Paris Baseball Club que nous sommes en mesure d’identifier :<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">L’équipe de l'Union Athlétique de l'Université
américaine<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn23" name="_ednref23" style="mso-endnote-id: edn23;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxiii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>, qui
paraît avoir joué régulièrement à partir de mai 1889 soit sur la Plaine Monceau<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn24" name="_ednref24" style="mso-endnote-id: edn24;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxiv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
dans le 17<sup>ème</sup> arrondissement, soit rue de Grenelle, c’est-à-dire sur
le Champ de Mars ou sur l’Esplanade des Invalides ;</li></ul><!--[if !supportLists]--><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i></i></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><i>« La partie, très animée,
a été suivie avec un vif intérêt par les spectateurs, parmi lesquels on
remarquait beaucoup d'Américains et d'Anglais. Les joueurs, tous en costume
blanc et portant des chapeaux de paille, se livraient à des évolutions
étonnantes, courant et sautant dans tous les sens pour attraper la balle ou
pour éviter d'être touchés. »</i></blockquote><i><o:p></o:p></i><p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">Le « club français de la rue de la Pompe »<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn25" name="_ednref25" style="mso-endnote-id: edn25;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
- dont on peut se demander s’il a un lien avec le lycée Janson de Sailly qui se
trouve dans la même rue - qui devait pratiquer du côté de la porte de la Muette en
1890 :</li></ul><!--[if !supportLists]--><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i></i></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><i>"Le Paris Baseball Club a
joué hier son premier match contre le club français de la rue de la Pompe. […] Le
public était nombreux et très enthousiaste. Les joueurs du Paris Baseball Club
ont montré une grande habileté et ont remporté le match avec un score de 12 à
5."</i></blockquote><i><o:p></o:p></i><p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">L’équipe de Colombes<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn26" name="_ednref26" style="mso-endnote-id: edn26;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxvi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
dès 1891, dont les noms des joueurs laissent penser qu’il s’agirait surtout de
Français :</li></ul><!--[if !supportLists]--><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i></i></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><i>« Hier après-midi, les
terrains de Colombes ont été le théâtre d'un match de Base-ball entre l'équipe
de Paris et celle de Colombes. Le Base-ball est un jeu qui commence à être
connu chez nous. Les Anglo-Saxons sont les meilleurs joueurs, mais les Français
sont loin d'être des novices. […] C'est un jeu très amusant et plein d'intérêt.
Les Américains en sont très friands, mais les Français ne tarderont pas à
l'adopter, car c'est un sport très intéressant et qui développe toutes les
qualités physiques.</i></blockquote><i><o:p></o:p></i><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i></i></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i>[…] L'équipe de Paris était
composée de MM. Cassidy, Chalumeau, Duvernois, E. White, Varachaud, Rouleau,
Boulanger, E. Smith et C. White. Celle de Colombes était composée de MM. Paul,
Piédoue, Bulteau, Sambon, Pouchet, Poulain, Varcollier, Bonnard, Gourgand et
Fénéon.<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i>La partie a été très disputée.
Les deux équipes étaient bien préparées et n'ont rien épargné pour gagner. Mais
l'équipe de Paris a fini par l'emporter par trois points contre un. Les joueurs
de l'équipe gagnante ont été chaudement applaudis par les spectateurs qui
assistaient au match. »</i></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"></p><ul><li>le Stade Français dans le parc de Meudon à
partir de 1891 ou 1893<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn27" name="_ednref27" style="mso-endnote-id: edn27;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxvii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> :</li></ul><!--[if !supportLists]--><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i>« Il y eut près de
l’observatoire des parties nombreuses. », </i>rapporte ainsi en 1913 Camille
d’Ars, un observateur de l’époque.</p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>la « Sporting Club » française en août
1893<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn28" name="_ednref28" style="mso-endnote-id: edn28;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxviii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> ;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">l’Etoile des Deux Lacs en août 1893<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn29" name="_ednref29" style="mso-endnote-id: edn29;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxix]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>,
qui figure parmi les principales associations sportives du 16<sup>ème</sup>
arrondissement et occupe un terrain dans le Bois de Boulogne ;</li><li><span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;">l’équipe de l’Union des jeunes gens ;</span></li><li><span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;">ou encore celle des « Sports réunis » :</span></li></ul><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i></i></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><i>« Le base-ball continue à
faire des progrès sensibles à Paris. La saison dernière</i> [1894]<i>, les
amateurs de ce jeu avaient organisé un championnat qui avait été très disputé
et très suivi. Il est probable que le succès de cette tentative ait encouragé
les promoteurs à continuer leur œuvre en l’élargissant. Aux équipes qui étaient
déjà en présence se sont jointes deux nouvelles, l’une de l’Union des jeunes
gens, l’autre des Sports réunis. Les détails de leur organisation ne nous sont
pas encore connus. On ignore également la date à laquelle les matchs
commenceront. Mais il est certain que les joueurs de base-ball n’auront pas à
regretter le temps qu’ils consacreront à la pratique de leur sport favori. Le
jeu est sain, complet, rapide et varié. Il est propre à développer la force
physique et morale de ceux qui s’y adonnent. Aussi espérons-nous que le nouveau
championnat aura un plein succès et une belle issue. »<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn30" name="_ednref30" style="mso-endnote-id: edn30;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxx]</span></b></span></span></span></a></i></blockquote><i><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn30" name="_ednref30" style="mso-endnote-id: edn30;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></i><p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"></p><ul><li>une équipe mixte composée d’élèves de l’École
des Mines et de Polytechnique :</li></ul><!--[if !supportLists]--><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i></i></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><i>« A Paris, il y a un club
de baseball qui est une société de jeunes gens très sérieux et qui jouent avec
un ensemble et une intelligence qui n’ont rien à envier à ceux des Américains.
La plupart des membres de cette société sont des élèves de l’École des Mines et
de l’École Polytechnique. Les joueurs ont une grande dextérité et la rapidité
avec laquelle ils manient la balle est extraordinaire. Ils sont très nombreux à
Paris et sont suivis par un grand nombre d’admirateurs. »<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn31" name="_ednref31" style="mso-endnote-id: edn31;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxxi]</span></b></span></span></span></a></i></blockquote><i><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn31" name="_ednref31" style="mso-endnote-id: edn31;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></i><p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">l’équipe de Joinville en 1903<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn32" name="_ednref32" style="mso-endnote-id: edn32;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><i><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxxii]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></i></span></a>,
qui pourrait être celle de l’école militaire, qui y pratiqua la grande thèque à
partir de 1889 ;</li><li><span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;">sans oublier certains clubs où la pratique semble
avoir été occasionnelle, notamment le Racing Club de France, ou bien
encore le Ranelagh mentionné pour la première fois en septembre 1897 :</span></li></ul><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i></i></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><i>« Ce nouveau sport promet
de faire sensation à Paris. Déjà plusieurs clubs ont organisé des matches,
notamment le Racing Club, le Ranelagh, le Stade français et le Club français.
(…) »<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn33" name="_ednref33" style="mso-endnote-id: edn33;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxxiii]</span></b></span></span></span></a></i></blockquote><i><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn33" name="_ednref33" style="mso-endnote-id: edn33;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></i><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">A partir de l’été 1897, il est
possible de constater un changement de ton dans les articles traitant du
baseball. Le club n’est plus perçu comme un simple petit trublion dans le
paysage sportif français mais comme une quasi vénérable institution, du haut de
ses 8 ans d’existence :<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i></i></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><i>« Le Paris Baseball Club
est l’un des clubs les plus populaires de la ville. Les membres de ce club sont
très habiles dans la pratique du baseball, et ils ont remporté de nombreux
succès dans les matchs qu’ils ont disputés. Les matchs de baseball attirent un
grand nombre de spectateurs, et il y a toujours une grande ambiance dans les
stades où se déroulent ces matchs. </i>[…]<i> Le Paris Baseball Club est une
institution très respectée à Paris, et ses membres sont considérés comme des
athlètes de haut niveau. »<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn34" name="_ednref34" style="mso-endnote-id: edn34;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxxiv]</span></b></span></span></span></a></i></blockquote><i><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn34" name="_ednref34" style="mso-endnote-id: edn34;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></i><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">L’heure est certainement venue de
faire franchir un nouveau seuil à cette organisation mais ce projet ne paraît
pas si simple à réaliser. Alors que le sujet est abordé quelques semaines plus
tard dans les pages de Le Radical :<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i></i></p><blockquote><i>« Le jeu de base-ball
prend une grande extension en France. Plusieurs clubs se sont formés, notamment
à Paris, et bientôt se disputera le championnat de France. »<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn35" name="_ednref35" style="mso-endnote-id: edn35;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxxv]</span></b></span></span></span></a></i></blockquote><i><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn35" name="_ednref35" style="mso-endnote-id: edn35;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></i><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">C’est seulement 6 ans plus tard,
en 1903, dans Le Petit Journal que l’on trouve la mention de matchs de
championnat de France de baseball :<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i></i></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><i>« Les adeptes du
baseball, qui ont déjà créé plusieurs clubs en France, et qui avaient entrepris
une campagne pour l’organisation d’un championnat de France, ont obtenu un
certain succès. Un championnat de France de baseball se disputera au bois de
Boulogne, le </i>[dimanche] <i>26 avril, entre les équipes de Paris et de
Joinville. La rencontre commencera à 3 heures précises et sera suivie par un
grand nombre d’amateurs. »<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn36" name="_ednref36" style="mso-endnote-id: edn36;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxxvi]</span></b></span></span></span></a></i></blockquote><i><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn36" name="_ednref36" style="mso-endnote-id: edn36;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></i><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Mais le Paris Baseball Club n’entend
pas se limiter à la France. Très rapidement, en effet, il affronte des clubs constitués
d’étrangers puis venant d’autres pays européens, parmi lesquels : <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">des équipes non identifiées lors d’un tournoi
international en septembre 1889 dont le lieu n’est pas précisé ;</li><li><span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;">possiblement les équipes de Londres et
Manchester lors d’une excursion en Angleterre en 1890 ;</span></li></ul><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i></i></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><i>« Il y a plusieurs
équipes de base-ball à Paris, et il est probable que ce jeu sera bientôt
pratiqué dans toutes les grandes villes de France. Le Paris Base-Ball Club a
participé à un tournoi international en septembre 1889 et s'est classé deuxième
après les équipes américaines. Le club est maintenant en train de préparer une
tournée en Angleterre, où il jouera contre les équipes de Londres et de
Manchester. »<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn37" name="_ednref37" style="mso-endnote-id: edn37;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxxvii]</span></b></span></span></span></a></i></blockquote><i><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn37" name="_ednref37" style="mso-endnote-id: edn37;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></i><p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"></p><ul><li>une équipe de l’Université de Cambridge venue à
Paris en avril 1890 :</li></ul><!--[if !supportLists]--><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i></i></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><i>« Un match de base-ball a
eu lieu hier </i>[le mercredi 25 avril 1890] <i>sur le terrain de l'Union des
sociétés athlétiques de France </i>[l’U.S.F.S.A. ?] <i>entre l'équipe du
Paris Baseball Club et une équipe de l'Université de Cambridge. Les joueurs
parisiens, bien que novices, ont montré une grande habileté et une grande
adresse. Ils ont été battus par deux points à un, mais leur prestation a été
très appréciée. Les joueurs anglais étaient également très bons, mais un peu
lourds et lents. »<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn38" name="_ednref38" style="mso-endnote-id: edn38;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxxviii]</span></b></span></span></span></a></i></blockquote><i><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn38" name="_ednref38" style="mso-endnote-id: edn38;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></i><p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"></p><ul><li>une « équipe Anglaise » à Paris en
juin 1891</li></ul><!--[if !supportLists]--><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i></i></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><i>« Le terrain de la rue de
Javel sera le théâtre d’un match de base-ball, aujourd’hui</i> [le mardi 6 juin
1891]<i>, entre l’équipe du Paris Baseball Club et une équipe anglaise. Les
règles de ce jeu, qui est très en vogue aux États-Unis, sont assez compliquées,
mais les joueurs parisiens les connaissent parfaitement et sont sûrs de
remporter la victoire. Les joueurs anglais ne sont pas connus, mais on dit
qu’ils sont très forts. »</i><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"> <a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn39" name="_ednref39" style="mso-endnote-id: edn39;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxxix]</span></span></span></a></span></blockquote><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn39" name="_ednref39" style="mso-endnote-id: edn39;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></span><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">le “British Club” en août 1893<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn40" name="_ednref40" style="mso-endnote-id: edn40;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xl]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>,
dont il n’est pas exclu qu’il puisse s’agir du Standard Athletic Club fondé à
Meudon en 1890 ;</li><li><span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;">un club bruxellois en juin 1896 :</span></li></ul><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i></i></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><i>« Le Paris Baseball Club
a joué hier un match contre le club belge de Bruxelles. Le match a eu lieu sur
le terrain du club dans le bois de Boulogne. Le public était nombreux et très
enthousiaste. Les joueurs du Paris Baseball Club ont montré une grande habileté
et ont remporté le match avec un score de 8 à 3. »</i><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"> <a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn41" name="_ednref41" style="mso-endnote-id: edn41;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xli]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></span> </blockquote><i><o:p></o:p></i><p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"></p><ul><li>plusieurs clubs étrangers lors de l’Exposition
Universelle de 1900 :</li></ul><!--[if !supportLists]--><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i></i></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><i>"Un tournoi de baseball
est organisé à Paris à l'occasion de l'Exposition universelle de 1900. Le
tournoi aura lieu sur le terrain du <a name="_Hlk133250660">Paris Baseball Club
</a>dans le bois de Boulogne. Plusieurs clubs français et étrangers
participeront au tournoi, y compris le Paris Baseball Club. Le baseball est un
sport très intéressant et nous espérons que le tournoi sera un grand
succès."<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn42" name="_ednref42" style="mso-endnote-id: edn42;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xlii]</span></b></span></span></span></a></i></blockquote><i><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn42" name="_ednref42" style="mso-endnote-id: edn42;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></i><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">En d’autres termes, tout au long
de ses années le Paris Baseball Club marque de son empreinte magistrale le
baseball sur le continent. Mais alors que se passe-t-il ensuite ? Comment se
fait-il que ce dynamique club pionnier disparaisse de manière aussi
abrupte et surtout pourquoi ? Les informations dont nous disposons ne
permettent pas d’établir avec certitude quel a été le sort de ce club et encore
moins les raisons de sa disparition. Il est possible que ce club ait fusionné
avec un autre ou ait été tout bonnement absorbé mais aucun lien n’est établi
avec l’un ou l’autre des clubs parisiens qui existent alors ou viendront peu de
temps après. Tout au plus peut-on lire dans Le Journal à la fin de l’année
1905 :<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i></i></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><i>« Le Paris Baseball Club,
qui avait été fondé en 1889, a cessé ses activités. Depuis quelque temps déjà,
ce sport n’attirait plus guère les amateurs et les joueurs avaient fini par se
lasser. Le Club a tenu une dernière réunion dernièrement, au cours de laquelle
il a été décidé de mettre fin à ses activités. Il n’y a plus actuellement de
Club de base-ball à Paris. »<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn43" name="_ednref43" style="mso-endnote-id: edn43;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xliii]</span></b></span></span></span></a></i></blockquote><i><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn43" name="_ednref43" style="mso-endnote-id: edn43;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></i><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Il faut croire que les Parisiens
ont finalement préféré s’adonner au football ou au rugby. Il faut croire aussi
que la population d’étudiants américains dans la capitale a changé ou adopté
d’autres priorités. Cyrus Dallin quant à lui, ne manqua apparemment pas une
occasion de venir saluer les joueurs de baseball lorsqu’il passait par Paris,
et continua longtemps à jouer au poste de troisième base dans l’équipe de
baseball amateur du Saint Botolph Club à Boston.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">La Fédération Française de Baseball
tenta apparemment au moins une fois de ressusciter ce club légendaire, en 1938.
C’est du moins une information que l’on peut trouver dans le International
Herald Tribune sous la plume du journaliste Sparrow Robertson,
destinataire d’un courrier du Secrétaire Général d’alors :<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i></i></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><i>« Cher Monsieur, La
Fédération Française de Baseball et moi-même </i>[…] <i>sommes ravis de vous
informer qu’un club de baseball a été constitué sous la dénomination de Paris
Baseball Club. Américains, Canadiens et joueurs de toutes nationalités sont cordialement
invités à nous rejoindre. </i>[…]<i> Dimanche prochain, le 5 juin, à 15 heures,
le Paris Baseball Club rencontrera le Ranelagh Baseball Club à Bagatelle, dans
le Bois de Boulogne. »</i><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn44" name="_ednref44" style="mso-endnote-id: edn44;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xliv]</span></b></span></span></span></i></span></a></blockquote><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_edn44" name="_ednref44" style="mso-endnote-id: edn44;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></i></span></a><i><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Pour autant, absolument rien dans
l’historique des clubs de la FFBS ne permet d’identifier ce club parmi les
affiliés à cette époque ou bien postérieurement à la publication de cet article.<o:p></o:p></p>
<div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><div style="text-align: center;">***</div><!--[if !supportEndnotes]-->
<hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" />
<!--[endif]-->
<div id="edn1" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> "Base-ball",
La Revue des sports, 13 mars 1889, p. 150.</p><p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref2" name="_edn2" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ii]</span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US"> The American register for Paris and
the continent, 16 mars 1889, p. 6.</span></p></div>
<div id="edn3" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref3" name="_edn3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Il
créera plus de 260 œuvres, dont des statues notables de Paul Revere et
d'Amérindiens ou bien encore la statue de l'ange Moroni qui se situe en haut du
temple de Salt Lake City, devenue un symbole de l'Église de Jésus-Christ des
saints des derniers jours.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn4" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref4" name="_edn4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn4;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Edouard-Joseph,
Dictionnaire biographique des artistes contemporains, 1910-1930, Paris, 1930,
I, 344 ; Thieme & Becker, VIII, 301 ; SAUR XXIII 526. Elève de Chapu et
Dampt. Membre de la société nationale (?) de sculpture de New York 1893 ;
sociétaire de l'Académie américaine des Arts et Lettres, membre de la Royal
Society of Arts de Londres. méd. d'or exp. Artistes américains 1888 ; mention
honorable au salon des Artistes français 1890, 2e méd. exposition universelle
Paris 1900 ; 3e méd. Salon des Artistes français 1903 ; méd. d'or exp. Saint
Louis 1904 ; méd. d'or exp. de San Francisco 1915. Spécialité : indien à cheval<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn5" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref5" name="_edn5" style="mso-endnote-id: edn5;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[v]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Informations recueillies sur https://fr.artprice.com/<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn6" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref6" name="_edn6" style="mso-endnote-id: edn6;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Will
South écrit que Harwood et Dallin ont joué dans la même équipe de baseball à
Paris dans “James Taylor Harwood, 1860-1940”, James Taylor Harwood, Utah Museum
of Fine Arts, 1987, p. 19.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn7" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref7" name="_edn7" style="mso-endnote-id: edn7;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Voir
le Catalogue officiel illustré, exposition des beaux-arts, États-Unis d'Amérique
ici : <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Catalogue_officiel_illustr%C3%A9%2C_exposition_des_beaux-arts%2C_%C3%89tats-Unis_d%27Ame%C3%A9rique%2C_Exposition_universelle_de_Paris_1900_%28IA_catalogueofficie00unit%29.pdf">https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Catalogue_officiel_illustr%C3%A9%2C_exposition_des_beaux-arts%2C_%C3%89tats-Unis_d%27Ame%C3%A9rique%2C_Exposition_universelle_de_Paris_1900_%28IA_catalogueofficie00unit%29.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn8" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref8" name="_edn8" style="mso-endnote-id: edn8;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[viii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> "Le
Paris Baseball Club", in Le Figaro, 5 juillet 1890, p. 2.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn9" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref9" name="_edn9" style="mso-endnote-id: edn9;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ix]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Comme
celles que les étudiants portent dans les ateliers.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn10" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref10" name="_edn10" style="mso-endnote-id: edn10;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[x]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> "Le
baseball en France", in Le Petit Journal, 20 mai 1894, p. 1.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn11" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref11" name="_edn11" style="mso-endnote-id: edn11;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> "Le
baseball à Paris", in Le Figaro, 23 août 1889, p. 2.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn12" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref12" name="_edn12" style="mso-endnote-id: edn12;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> "Le
Paris Baseball Club", in Le Figaro, 5 juillet 1890, p. 2.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn13" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref13" name="_edn13" style="mso-endnote-id: edn13;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xiii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> "Le
baseball à Paris", in Le Figaro, 23 août 1889, p. 2.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn14" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref14" name="_edn14" style="mso-endnote-id: edn14;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xiv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> "Le
base-ball à Paris", in Le Gaulois, 30 juin 1889, p. 2.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn15" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref15" name="_edn15" style="mso-endnote-id: edn15;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> "Le
Paris Baseball Club", in Le Figaro, 22 juin 1890, p. 3.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn16" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref16" name="_edn16" style="mso-endnote-id: edn16;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xvi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> "Le
Base-Ball en France", in La Vie illustrée, 28 décembre 1889, p. 377-378 ;
« Le baseball à la porte Maillot », in Le Temps, 11 mai 1902.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn17" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref17" name="_edn17" style="mso-endnote-id: edn17;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xvii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> "Le
Paris Baseball Club", in Le Figaro, 5 juillet 1890, p. 2.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn18" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref18" name="_edn18" style="mso-endnote-id: edn18;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xviii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> "Le
Base-Ball en France", in La Vie illustrée, 28 décembre 1889, p. 377-378.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn19" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref19" name="_edn19" style="mso-endnote-id: edn19;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xix]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> "Le
base-ball à Paris", Le Gaulois, 30 juin 1889, p. 2.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn20" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref20" name="_edn20" style="mso-endnote-id: edn20;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xx]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> "Le
Base-Ball en France", in La Vie illustrée, 28 décembre 1889, p. 377-378.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn21" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref21" name="_edn21" style="mso-endnote-id: edn21;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> "Le
baseball à Paris", in Le Temps, 12 juin 1892, p. 2.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn22" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref22" name="_edn22" style="mso-endnote-id: edn22;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> "Le
Base-Ball", in Le Journal, 3 août 1893, p. 1.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn23" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref23" name="_edn23" style="mso-endnote-id: edn23;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxiii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> "Le
match de baseball de la rue de Grenelle", in Le Figaro, 13 mai 1889.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn24" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref24" name="_edn24" style="mso-endnote-id: edn24;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxiv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> "Le
baseball en France", in Le Petit Journal, 20 mai 1894, p. 1.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn25" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref25" name="_edn25" style="mso-endnote-id: edn25;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> "Le
Paris Baseball Club", in Le Figaro, 22 juin 1890, p. 3.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn26" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref26" name="_edn26" style="mso-endnote-id: edn26;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxvi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> "Le
match de baseball entre Paris et Colombes", in Le Petit Parisien, 24 mai
1891. <o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn27" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref27" name="_edn27" style="mso-endnote-id: edn27;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxvii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> "Le
Championnat de baseball - Le match Paris-Meudon", in Le Journal, 26 mai
1891, p. 2 ; « Le base-ball », in La presse sportive, 17 juillet
1913, p. 1.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn28" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref28" name="_edn28" style="mso-endnote-id: edn28;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxviii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> "Le
Base-Ball", in Le Journal, 3 août 1893, p. 1.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn29" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref29" name="_edn29" style="mso-endnote-id: edn29;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxix]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> "Le
Base-Ball", in Le Journal, 3 août 1893, p. 1.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn30" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref30" name="_edn30" style="mso-endnote-id: edn30;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxx]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> "Le
base-ball à Paris – La saison 1895", in Le Figaro, April 11, 1895, p. 4.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn31" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref31" name="_edn31" style="mso-endnote-id: edn31;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxxi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> "Le
baseball à Paris", in Le Figaro, 6 juin 1895, p. 4.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn32" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref32" name="_edn32" style="mso-endnote-id: edn32;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxxii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> "Le
baseball en France", rubrique « Sports », in Le Petit Journal,
19 avril 1903, p. 2.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn33" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref33" name="_edn33" style="mso-endnote-id: edn33;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxxiii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> "Sport
et Jeu", rubrique « Chronique Sportive », in Le Figaro, 13
septembre 1897, p. 2.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn34" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref34" name="_edn34" style="mso-endnote-id: edn34;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxxiv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> "Le
baseball à Paris", in Le Petit Journal, 15 juillet 1897, p. 1.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn35" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref35" name="_edn35" style="mso-endnote-id: edn35;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxxv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> "Le
Base-Ball", rubrique « Sports et Gymnastique », in Le Radical,
23 août 1897, p. 2.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn36" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref36" name="_edn36" style="mso-endnote-id: edn36;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxxvi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> "Le
baseball en France", rubrique « Sports », in Le Petit Journal,
19 avril 1903, p. 2.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn37" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref37" name="_edn37" style="mso-endnote-id: edn37;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxxvii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> "Le
Base-Ball en France", in La Vie illustrée, 28 décembre 1889, p. 377-378.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn38" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref38" name="_edn38" style="mso-endnote-id: edn38;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxxviii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> "Le
Base-Ball à Paris", in Le Radical, 26 avril 1890, p. 2.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref39" name="_edn39" style="mso-endnote-id: edn39;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xxxix]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> "Le
Base-Ball", in Le Petit Journal, 6 juin 1891, p. 1.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<div id="edn40" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref40" name="_edn40" style="mso-endnote-id: edn40;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xl]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> "Le
Base-Ball", in Le Journal, 3 août 1893, p. 1.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref41" name="_edn41" style="mso-endnote-id: edn41;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xli]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> "Le
baseball à Paris", in Le Petit Parisien, 14 juin 1896, p.2.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref42" name="_edn42" style="mso-endnote-id: edn42;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xlii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> "Le
baseball à Paris", in Le Matin, 10 juin 1900, p. 2.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref43" name="_edn43" style="mso-endnote-id: edn43;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xliii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> "Sport
et théâtre", in Le Journal, 5 novembre 1905, p. 3.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Paris%20Baseball%20Club/Vie%20et%20mort%20du%20Paris%20Baseball%20Club%20-%201889.docx#_ednref44" name="_edn44" style="mso-endnote-id: edn44;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xliv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <span lang="EN-US">"Sporting Gossip",
in International Herald Tribune, 2 juin 1938, p. 8.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5327037030152747570.post-64935348463956373922023-04-07T17:57:00.001+02:002023-04-07T17:57:32.882+02:00Un As<p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1e1919;">A tout seigneur tout honneur, j’avais
envie, pour entamer cette section consacrée à la période 1914-1919, d’en
accorder le premier article à un illustre de nos héros fort injustement tombé
dans l’oubli : le benjamin des As de la Grande Guerre.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1e1919;">Pierre Marinovitch (parfois
orthographié Marinowitch, Petar Marinović ou Петар Мариновић en serbo-croate, surnommé
<a name="_Hlk131775224">Marino </a>par ses camarades) est né le 1<sup>er</sup> août
1898 dans le 16<sup>ème</sup> arrondissement de Paris d’un père Serbe, Bélisaire
Marinovitch, ingénieur civil à la compagnie du Théâtrophone<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Un%20As%20-%20Pierre%20Marinovitch%20-%201919.docx#_edn1" name="_ednref1" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: #1e1919; font-family: Garamond, serif; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">[i]</span></span></span></a>, et
d’une mère russe de souche polonaise, Agrippine de Bronkov (ou</span> <span style="color: #1e1919;">Bournckoff). Son grand-père paternel, Jovan
Marinovitch, a été Premier ministre de Serbie en 1873 - 1874, puis ambassadeur
de Serbie en France de 1879 à 1889. Son arrière-grand-père était le négociant
Miša Anastasijevitch, devenu richissime grâce au commerce de sel de Valachie et
de Moldavie. Promis à un brillant avenir, le jeune Pierre parle couramment
plusieurs langues dont le <a name="_Hlk131768025">serbo-croate</a>, le russe mais
aussi l'anglais. Elève au lycée Condorcet, il joue au baseball en 1913-1914 dans
les rangs de l’A.B.B. et figure à l’arrière-plan sur l’unique photo retrouvée
jusqu’à présent de cette équipe (voir l’article </span><a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.com/2013/04/burgess-et-lassociation-de-base-ball-du.html">ici</a><span style="color: #1e1919;">). Pierre et ses parents
sont domiciliés au 4, rue Tronchet à Paris, et peut-être vous souviendrez-vous
que c’est au 27 de cette même rue que Spalding fonda la Société Française des
Publications Sportives, à quelques pas de la boutique du boulevard des
Capucines (lire l’article </span><a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.com/2013/09/les-premiers-parrains-spalding.html?_sm_au_=isVCTR4Ln5VNZjSRQ0WpHK6H8sjL6">Les premiers parrains – Spalding</a><span style="color: #1e1919;">).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1e1919;">Le 31 janvier 1916, son père
effectue une déclaration de nationalité, ce qui lui confère la nationalité
française de par sa naissance à Paris. Impatient d’entrer en action, il
s'engage dans l’armée française en février 1916, âgé seulement de 17 ans et
demi au bureau de recrutement de Paris sous le matricule n° 238<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Un%20As%20-%20Pierre%20Marinovitch%20-%201919.docx#_edn2" name="_ednref2" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: #1e1919; font-family: Garamond, serif; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">[ii]</span></span></span></a>.
Incorporé tout d’abord au 27<sup>ème</sup> régiment de dragons (cavalerie)</span>
<span style="color: #1e1919;">comme simple soldat de 2<sup>e</sup> classe, il y fait
vraisemblablement l’expérience du front. Il est transféré au service aérien
cinq mois plus tard en tant qu’élève pilote à l'école d'aviation militaire de
Chartres. Il y décroche son brevet de pilote le 15 novembre 1916<a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Un%20As%20-%20Pierre%20Marinovitch%20-%201919.docx#_edn3" name="_ednref3" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: #1e1919; font-family: Garamond, serif; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">[iii]</span></span></span></a>, effectue
un stage de perfectionnement à l'école d'aviation militaire de Châteauroux, rejoint
l'escadrille N.38 en mars 1917, puis est transféré à la Spa 94, créée en
réunissant les moyens matériels et aéronautiques des détachements de chasse
512, 513 et 514 à partir du 1er juin 1917. Il est alors brigadier.</span><span style="color: #1e1919;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2R4XXcmtXRiTniiEDEgxNpxdoTmk-rvl2TrDL57RGsWdmzHK7EfY95mhK74t6etmh9qIt_5HGuCPcY6L6yZ_uLM4UxQs33wT2N9gDWSgzefEx2NI61KZJ08YLiRSSI2s9y1vH9iOLbkdVAjC0Md8_4uW1zo7oXs7PbMbGt-LHOzd_NmWRbIIlT64TbQ/s299/marinovitch.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="299" data-original-width="196" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2R4XXcmtXRiTniiEDEgxNpxdoTmk-rvl2TrDL57RGsWdmzHK7EfY95mhK74t6etmh9qIt_5HGuCPcY6L6yZ_uLM4UxQs33wT2N9gDWSgzefEx2NI61KZJ08YLiRSSI2s9y1vH9iOLbkdVAjC0Md8_4uW1zo7oXs7PbMbGt-LHOzd_NmWRbIIlT64TbQ/w419-h640/marinovitch.jpg" width="419" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1e1919;"><div style="text-align: justify;">A partir de ce moment-là, il va
enchaîner les faits d’armes et gravir les échelons tout aussi rapidement qu’il va
décrocher les médailles.</div></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1e1919;">Le 8 septembre 1917, Pierre
Marinovitch récemment nommé maréchal des logis attaque un groupe de quatre
monoplaces de chasse allemands au-dessus de St-Hilaire-le-Petit, remporte sa première
victoire et reçoit une première citation à l'ordre de l'armée : « </span><i style="color: #1e1919;">Pilote
habile et audacieux, toujours volontaire pour les missions les plus
dangereuses. Le 8 septembre 1917, en combat aérien, a abattu un avion ennemi
dans ses lignes</i><span style="color: #1e1919;"> ».</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1e1919;">Le 5 décembre 1917, Marinovitch remporte
sa seconde victoire homologuée en forçant l'équipage d'un Rumpler C à s'écraser
près de Mourmelon-Baconnes. Il est récompensé d'une citation à l'ordre de
l'armée qui lui est décernée, le 16 décembre 1917 : "</span><i style="color: #1e1919;">Excellent
pilote de chasse, d'une audace exceptionnelle ; a soutenu de rudes combats, rentrant
souvent avec un appareil gravement atteint. Le 5 décembre 1917, a attaqué seul
un biplace ennemi et l'a abattu dans nos lignes.</i><span style="color: #1e1919;">"</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1e1919;">Le 22 décembre 1917, il abat un autre
Rumpler C au Nord de Pont-Faverger. Il reçoit une nouvelle citation à l'ordre de
l'armée : "</span><i style="color: #1e1919;">Pilote de chasse accompli, volontaire pour toutes les
missions périlleuses, a montré dès ses débuts une audace et une ardeur
admirables qui ne se sont jamais démenties. N'a pas livré moins de trente
combats, ramenant souvent son appareil criblé de balles ou d'éclats d'obus. Le
22 décembre 1917, a abattu son troisième avion ennemi.</i><span style="color: #1e1919;">"</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1e1919;">Affecté le 1</span><sup style="color: #1e1919;">er</sup><span style="color: #1e1919;"> janvier
1918 à l'escadrille N 156, Marinovitch remporte le jour même sa 4</span><sup style="color: #1e1919;">ème</sup><span style="color: #1e1919;">
victoire homologuée contre un nouveau Rumpler C dans les environs de Beine.
Pour ce nouveau fait d'arme, il est promu adjudant quelques jours plus tard et reçoit
une quatrième citation à l'ordre de l'armée : "</span><i style="color: #1e1919;">Pilote de chasse
accompli, ne cesse de donner de nouvelles preuves de son audace et de son
courage. Le 1er janvier 1918, a abattu loin dans ses lignes un avion ennemi,
portant ainsi à quatre le nombre de ses victoires.</i><span style="color: #1e1919;">"</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1e1919;">Le 19 janvier, Marinovitch s'en
prend à un Albatros D V qu'il croise loin dans ses lignes, au Nord de
Manre-Beine et remporte ainsi sa 5</span><sup style="color: #1e1919;">ème</sup><span style="color: #1e1919;"> victoire homologuée.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1e1919;">Et ainsi de suite, au point qu’il
fête ses 20 ans en août avec déjà 14 victoires à son actif, dont deux particulièrement
remarquables sur le Prince Walter von Bülow et Karl Paul Schliegel, crédités respectivement
de 28 et 24 victoires aériennes. Il brille littéralement par son exceptionnelle
audace et force à juste titre l'admiration de son escadrille et de ses
supérieurs. En tout, de septembre 1917 à novembre 1918, à bord d’un Nieuport
puis d’un Spad orné du symbole de la SPA 94, « la mort fauchant », Marinovitch est
crédité d'un total de 21 victoires aériennes</span><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Un%20As%20-%20Pierre%20Marinovitch%20-%201919.docx#_edn4" name="_ednref4" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: #1e1919; font-family: Garamond, serif; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">[iv]</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #1e1919;">. Ajoutons
à cela que trois à cinq autres victoires, jugées probables, n'ont pas été
homologuées faute de preuves</span><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Un%20As%20-%20Pierre%20Marinovitch%20-%201919.docx#_edn5" name="_ednref5" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: #1e1919; font-family: Garamond, serif; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">[v]</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #1e1919;">. Lorsqu’il
est nommé sous-lieutenant le 20 octobre 1918, il est déjà décoré de la Croix de
Guerre (6 citations, 14 palmes), de la Military Cross et s’est vu remettre la
Médaille militaire des mains du général Gouraud, commandant de la 4ème armée, ainsi
que les insignes de Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur de celles du général Duval,
chef du service aéronautique au GQG !</span><span style="color: #1e1919;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQfHSecsKetHVAiTelKhq4brocMEb-JU-II2RXo8BupPe1KrQEsqBJ3sNMKgux_QqaMehUA4JxsMTm-2VFT8Xuq7K0gj0RG1_MAik3isIK3qDPAFT8wTSv6aFZ-BBK-_MF9gJf1FvcgjjeD2tR-3jal46_bMirAJBdpUn3DPwFUO0Saekq8XLKerC_yg/s371/spad.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="166" data-original-width="371" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQfHSecsKetHVAiTelKhq4brocMEb-JU-II2RXo8BupPe1KrQEsqBJ3sNMKgux_QqaMehUA4JxsMTm-2VFT8Xuq7K0gj0RG1_MAik3isIK3qDPAFT8wTSv6aFZ-BBK-_MF9gJf1FvcgjjeD2tR-3jal46_bMirAJBdpUn3DPwFUO0Saekq8XLKerC_yg/w640-h286/spad.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #1e1919;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Un Spad aux couleurs de l’escadrille 94. On reconnaît
l’insigne de la faucheuse visible sur la poitrine de Marinovitch.</span></span><span style="color: #1e1919;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1e1919;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="color: #1e1919;">Au moment de la signature de
l’armistice, Marinovitch est considéré comme le plus redoutable des pilotes de
son escadrille mais surtout, il a rejoint le cercle très fermé des pilotes
Français comptant plus de 19 victoires, ce qui fait techniquement de lui un As
au même titre que René Fonck (75 victoires), Georges Guynemer (53) et Charles
Nungesser (43), pour ne citer qu’eux, mais à la différence de ceux-ci, lui n’a
combattu qu’à peine plus d’un an comme pilote ! La presse parle de lui et
insiste sur son jeune âge, le baptisant « Benjamin des As ».</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1e1919;">Son statut d’As et sa gloire ne le
rendent malheureusement pas infaillible. Après avoir intégré l’escadrille des
grands raids, une formation organisée par l’état-major après la guerre pour
réaliser des raids de prestige, il est envoyé en Belgique pour y préparer une
exhibition aérienne à Evere. Le 2 septembre 1919 à 17h, alors qu'il fait une
démonstration de voltige à basse altitude, son Spad s'écrase sur le terrain
d'aviation de Bruxelles-Haren en présence du roi Albert Ier et de la reine
Élisabeth. Il meurt le 3 septembre à l'hôpital militaire de Bruxelles</span><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Un%20As%20-%20Pierre%20Marinovitch%20-%201919.docx#_edn6" name="_ednref6" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: #1e1919; font-family: Garamond, serif; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">[vi]</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #1e1919;">.</span><span style="color: #1e1919;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #1e1919; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg25w2rRTb7b2RM4aLYrk03WhRrTaLm-wbQQo0l8ncp1RFtNG8zkIOIgvlW_wKn9D4lJMEPTPgKtPoLAcSFSg67ugIqBCmHFYNS7y3MSPofSesVF4XiqFNUHoJpj7O6Hqm7Gj8CRc4SeCTDXiFFdF_kDDgjbLUhx5tZs6_yAbG09-Y26YThoDDbOmGz7A/s1017/obs%C3%A8ques.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="765" data-original-width="1017" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg25w2rRTb7b2RM4aLYrk03WhRrTaLm-wbQQo0l8ncp1RFtNG8zkIOIgvlW_wKn9D4lJMEPTPgKtPoLAcSFSg67ugIqBCmHFYNS7y3MSPofSesVF4XiqFNUHoJpj7O6Hqm7Gj8CRc4SeCTDXiFFdF_kDDgjbLUhx5tZs6_yAbG09-Y26YThoDDbOmGz7A/w640-h482/obs%C3%A8ques.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #1e1919;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Les obsèques de Pierre Marinovitch.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1e1919;">Il serait évidemment présomptueux
d’affirmer que ce jeune garçon a développé ses réflexes et son sens de
l’anticipation, qualités indispensables à tout bon bilote de chasse, uniquement
grâce à sa très brève pratique du baseball mais il ne fait aucun doute que
Marinovitch aurait pu constituer le plus magnifique sujet de communication pour
une organisation souhaitant vanter les vertus guerrières de ce sport ou
simplement rendre hommage à cette jeunesse sacrifiée. Songez, pour vous en
convaincre, à cet autre lieutenant pilote français, mort en combat aérien le 5
octobre 1918, qu’était Roland Garros et qui ne joua pratiquement jamais au
tennis. Son nom n’est finalement passé à la postérité collective que parce
qu’il a été donné, sous l’insistance de son ami Émile Lesieur, au stade de
tennis parisien qu’il fallait construire pour accueillir les épreuves de la
coupe Davis ramenée en France par les « Mousquetaires »</span><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Un%20As%20-%20Pierre%20Marinovitch%20-%201919.docx#_edn7" name="_ednref7" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: #1e1919; font-family: Garamond, serif; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">[vii]</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #1e1919;">. A
tout le moins, il me semblerait juste que la Fédération Française de Baseball
honore Marinovitch en donnant son nom, si ce n’est à un stade, à la principale
compétition de 18U.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1e1919;">Marino est inhumé au cimetière du
Père-Lachaise</span><a href="file://main.glb.corp.local/HD$/Home/DEF/6/J0535766/Documents/Perso%20JCT/blog/Un%20As%20-%20Pierre%20Marinovitch%20-%201919.docx#_edn8" name="_ednref8" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: #1e1919; font-family: Garamond, serif; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">[viii]</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #1e1919;">.
Passez donc le saluer à l’occasion.</span><span style="color: #1e1919;"> </span></p>
<div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwAaAP-Ht2o0OMAh8Xjj27ljlGcLumAmUwxPk9BKGX2nkAXm1zFvTHLmEo5odhtBTgexMdhcfJG5pRVfVrV4QNyPPhBk1_Brk-p7bw1x-GY-ExSBJoCNa84VPXGBW4QghJc4HBm3wD-rMZRBi5qK0RAV6TeZZCFVuhTdsit__CCtVc43eMPHwST_MaBw/s776/tombe.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="776" data-original-width="517" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwAaAP-Ht2o0OMAh8Xjj27ljlGcLumAmUwxPk9BKGX2nkAXm1zFvTHLmEo5odhtBTgexMdhcfJG5pRVfVrV4QNyPPhBk1_Brk-p7bw1x-GY-ExSBJoCNa84VPXGBW4QghJc4HBm3wD-rMZRBi5qK0RAV6TeZZCFVuhTdsit__CCtVc43eMPHwST_MaBw/w426-h640/tombe.jpg" width="426" /></a></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #1e1919;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">La tombe de Pierre Marinovitch.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p> ***</o:p><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></p><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;">
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Le théâtrophone est une utilisation spécifique de la communication téléphonique.
Cette invention mise au point en 1881 par Clément Ader permet d’écouter l’opéra
en restant chez soi. Le développement de la TSF y mit un terme dans les années
1930.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Fiche matricule du 6<sup>ème</sup> bureau de la Seine conservée aux archives
départementales de Paris.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Brevet n° 4910.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Ou même 25 selon certaines sources.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Dont deux Fokker Dr I abattus dans les environs de Longpont et un biplace
contraint d'atterrir dans la région de la Ferté-Milon-Mosloy.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Voir sur le site <a href="http://www.as14-18.net/Marinovitch">http://www.as14-18.net/Marinovitch</a>
pour plus de détails sur ses victoires et ses appareils, ainsi que <a href="http://albindenis.free.fr/Site_escadrille/escadrille094.htm">http://albindenis.free.fr/Site_escadrille/escadrille094.htm</a>
pour le détail des citations.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Lacoste, Borotra, Cochet, Brugnon. Pour mémoire, le surnom de Crocodile a été attribué
à Lacoste par la presse américaine, à la suite d'un pari qu'il aurait fait en
1923 avec Allan Muhr, alors capitaine de l'équipe de Coupe Davis, à Boston.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Allée Carette, 92e division, à 10 rangs de l’avenue transversale n° 3.<o:p></o:p></p>
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5327037030152747570.post-67440878156131581982023-04-07T17:30:00.004+02:002023-04-07T17:31:03.589+02:00De la Belle Epoque à la Grande Guerre<p style="text-align: justify;">Oh oui, c’était une bien Belle Epoque et croyez bien
que j’aurais aimé trouver davantage de matière encore pour relater la vie de ces
hommes qui en ont été les témoins directs ! Refermer le premier chapitre de
cette chronique s’est avéré en réalité beaucoup plus difficile - et même
douloureux - pour moi que je n’aurais pu l’imaginer. Tout au long de mes
recherches, au fil de ces longues heures souvent nocturnes passées à chercher les traces de leur
histoire individuelle et collective, à m’étonner de tous ces ambitieux projets,
à m’ébahir de cette si riche période qui avait littéralement sombré dans
l’oubli ou l’indifférence, j’ai développé une affection certaine pour chacun de
ces acteurs des débuts du baseball en France : tous ces artistes, ces
pionniers, ces audacieux, ces originaux, comment ne pas s’attacher à eux ?</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p style="text-align: justify;">Découvrir progressivement leur destin à partir de 1914 –
tragique pour un très grand nombre d’entre eux – a été pour moi une sorte de
déchirure. Bien sûr, nous savons tous quelle a été l’issue de la grande
histoire et de ce conflit mondial, et nous nous doutons tous que la Faucheuse
n’a épargné personne ou si peu. Mais quelle tristesse de réaliser pourquoi et à
quel point la Grande Guerre a porté un coup au développement de ce sport initié
par une poignée de visionnaires !</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Assurément, cette guerre a bouleversé bien des vies mais elle n'a pas mis pour autant un terme à l'adoption du baseball dans l'hexagone. Le chapitre suivant, consacré à la période allant de 1914 à 1919, va m'obliger à osciller régulièrement, parfois de façon désordonnée, entre ces acteurs que vous avez découverts et de nouveaux personnages nourrissant eux aussi de grandes ambitions. Vous découvrirez bien vite que ce fléau a aussi donné vie à de magnifiques initiatives.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5327037030152747570.post-71498212389148122992023-04-07T16:51:00.000+02:002023-04-07T16:51:46.822+02:00La démonstration du Connecticut<p style="text-align: justify;">Le Bois de Boulogne grouille manifestement de joueurs de baseball en cet été 1895. Parmi les équipes qui s’affrontent sous le soleil, il y a celle de l’école des Beaux-Arts composée d’étudiants Américains de toutes les disciplines artistiques et très vraisemblablement membres de l’<a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/01/la-communaute-americaine-de-france.html">American Art Association</a>, et sa grande rivale qui regroupe des étudiants d’autres matières du Quartier Latin, appelée tout simplement Latin Quarter. Mais celle qui va semble-t-il défrayer la chronique et agiter quelque peu la communauté américaine de Paris à l’occasion de son bref passage dans la capitale est une équipe en provenance du Connecticut, menée par un certain Prof. Fox.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span></span></p><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">George L. Fox est à cette époque Recteur
de la vénérable Hopkins Grammar School, la troisième plus ancienne école
indépendante des Etats-Unis, fondée en 1660 par le Révérent John Davenport à
New Haven, dans le Connecticut[i].
Habitué des voyages transatlantiques[ii],
Fox a emmené dans son voyage sur le vieux continent des étudiants non pas (seulement ?)
de Hopkins mais (aussi) de la fameuse Yale University, l’autre grande institution
fondée en 1771 à quelques kilomètres de la première et qui fait depuis lors la fierté
et la renommée internationale de la ville de New Haven. Fort logiquement, Hopkins
et Yale entretiennent des liens très étroits et ont depuis toujours des
histoires qui s’entremêlent. Constituée dès 1864, l’équipe des Yale
Bulldogs[iii] fait partie de l’élite des sports athlétiques universitaires, surnommée la Ivy
League. A l’issue du championnat de l’année 1895, elle affiche 20 victoires
pour 9 défaites. Parmi ses joueurs réguliers, figurent le talentueux lanceur Frederick
Bristol, dit Ed, Buckingham, qui signera un contrat professionnel avec les
Washington Senators à seulement 19 ans à la fin du mois d’août, ou bien encore William
Henry Murphy, surnommé Yale Murphy, qui jouera pour les New York Giants jusqu’en
1897.</div><o:p></o:p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS-F83Nf7g8EbP2z1O7IkJq4WVwSEKpM29genyVR0ZvREkstZwEg_KsaN7Fik5iWBsAzPcrxUWEyH_dvxAYMZ7SriRKQNnzntFGLOH7kGgl8YyEA4RGCZ8ONXcag80VPVNClMMqLXqAttmJegA2jBme3fGNQ7ZpiqdBlUShIpFKI8DREnOAIP5D9MlHA/s435/hopkins.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="435" data-original-width="304" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS-F83Nf7g8EbP2z1O7IkJq4WVwSEKpM29genyVR0ZvREkstZwEg_KsaN7Fik5iWBsAzPcrxUWEyH_dvxAYMZ7SriRKQNnzntFGLOH7kGgl8YyEA4RGCZ8ONXcag80VPVNClMMqLXqAttmJegA2jBme3fGNQ7ZpiqdBlUShIpFKI8DREnOAIP5D9MlHA/w448-h640/hopkins.jpg" width="448" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo de deux joueurs
de l’équipe de baseball de la Hopkins Grammar School en 1894. Charles Edward Ives,
à gauche, étudiera par la suite à Yale, dont il sortira diplômé en 1898, et deviendra
un illustre compositeur. Était-il du voyage à Paris en 1895 ?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Que sait-on de la raison officielle
de la venue de Fox à Paris ? Assez peu de choses en vérité et la presse
américaine ne fait nullement écho de ce voyage, mais une information de taille
est dévoilée dans un article du Figaro, qui fournit un premier indice : Fox
serait « <i>un des amis du baron Pierre de Coubertin</i> »,
secrétaire général de l'<a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/01/lusfsa-premiere-structure-federale.html">Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques</a> (U.S.F.S.A.).
Ceci est <span style="line-height: 107%;">parfaitement</span>
plausible lorsque l’on sait que Coubertin s’est rendu plusieurs fois outre-Atlantique
et, dans le cadre de la préparation du <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/01/au-berceau-de-lolympisme.html">Congrès de Paris</a> qui rétablit les jeux
Olympiques en Sorbonne en juin 1894[iv],
notamment en 1893. En cette occasion précise, il est avéré que Coubertin assista
au match annuel de football (américain) disputé entre les universités de
Princeton et de Yale[v]. Il n’est
absolument pas exclu que Fox et Coubertin se soient rencontrés lors de ce
séjour, se soient par la suite revus à Paris en juillet 1894, lors de la
venue de Fox en France, et aient mis sur pied une démonstration du baseball plus aboutie que celle faite lors du Congrès.<o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvFfTEOM1KzbcFSUWc2ylAK9OUJdQn2L3eck-OEUsqR3caxmvI_pbpI78xFdXDqgE_6ZF7SrlKDwJGNA5qKEeJVYHgoX9T_WUzCR54SnmcXmau74qYSvn1xL2sJCf0Vyezx8om2tHgQP0I2wzaYCyhGQf4GsNevT8kqgKWvdX0zmrHMY7pawX2B82EMQ/s903/Coubertin.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="903" height="454" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvFfTEOM1KzbcFSUWc2ylAK9OUJdQn2L3eck-OEUsqR3caxmvI_pbpI78xFdXDqgE_6ZF7SrlKDwJGNA5qKEeJVYHgoX9T_WUzCR54SnmcXmau74qYSvn1xL2sJCf0Vyezx8om2tHgQP0I2wzaYCyhGQf4GsNevT8kqgKWvdX0zmrHMY7pawX2B82EMQ/w640-h454/Coubertin.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Pierre de Coubertin ramant
sur son embarcation appelée « Yale », en 1935 sur le Lac Léman.</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Quoi qu’il en soit, Fox et ses
jeunes joueurs ont un programme particulièrement chargé. A la demande des membres
du Racing-Club de France mais aussi de la Société de sport de l’île de Puteaux[vi],
présidée par le vicomte Léon de Janzé, qui n’est autre que le récemment nommé président
de l'U.S.F.S.A., ce n’est pas un simple match mais un total de trois
démonstrations de baseball qui va être offert aux Parisiens amateurs de sport.<o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPr-sFhFVnJ2fxTHOaBV30WrrAIdtGDh9L8JttvTB0XFau8a4fq6N40E05CcOMCg4k6BK9cKsmn9OsteqfZUKl0A6aQbWDs49fVqonGOV6hpVp5zgvRePsLTw3a7yuMhsTb4ohJALxIel_LdUA0J6AqPpiad1tx7gL49eYrjeJl7kY82kQ2NhevPN8RQ/s3423/Janz%C3%A9.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3423" data-original-width="1975" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPr-sFhFVnJ2fxTHOaBV30WrrAIdtGDh9L8JttvTB0XFau8a4fq6N40E05CcOMCg4k6BK9cKsmn9OsteqfZUKl0A6aQbWDs49fVqonGOV6hpVp5zgvRePsLTw3a7yuMhsTb4ohJALxIel_LdUA0J6AqPpiad1tx7gL49eYrjeJl7kY82kQ2NhevPN8RQ/w370-h640/Janz%C3%A9.jpg" width="370" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Le vicomte Léon de
Janzé en 1895.</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Dès le matin du mercredi 31
juillet 1895, le Figaro[vii] leur en annonce clairement le détail :<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i></i></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><i>« M. Fox […] fera jouer […]
des parties de base-ball, le jeu national des Etats-Unis, sur la pelouse de
Saint-Cloud au Bois de Boulogne. Les parties seront jouées de quatre à six
heures du soir, par des Américains amateurs actuellement à Paris. Leur but est
de faire connaître aux Français ce jeu qui tire son origine du jeu français « la
balle au camp ». Une notice en français sur les règles du base-ball sera
distribuée aux spectateurs pour qu’ils puissent le comprendre dans tous ses
détails. M. Fox […] a invité un grand nombre de personnes, notamment des élèves
de nos lycées et les membres de l’Union des sports athlétiques français. »</i></blockquote><i><o:p></o:p></i><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Un but pédagogique affirmé, des
règles en français distribuées, des invitations lancées aux clubs membres
de l’U.S.F.S.A. ? Une bien curieuse allusion aux origines françaises du
baseball ? L’accent mis sur le caractère amateur et non professionnel de
ces joueurs ? Incontestablement, il s’agit d’une démarche parfaitement orchestrée,
répondant à une commande précise et visant essentiellement une adoption de ce
sport en France. Pour autant, combien y a-t-il de joueurs dans cette délégation
du Connecticut et combien jouent véritablement dans les équipes habituelles
de Hopkins ou de Yale ? Contre qui jouent-ils à Paris d’ailleurs ? Qui a pris
en charge les frais du voyage et qui précisément assiste à cet événement ?
Nous n’avons en l’état de nos connaissances pas de réponses à ces questions.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">La première démonstration se tient
donc le mercredi dans le <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/01/un-premier-terrain-de-baseball-paris.html">Bois de Boulogne</a>, en présence, nous rapporte la presse[viii],
de nombreux spectateurs. La seconde, à laquelle prendront apparemment part plusieurs
Français – à moins qu’il ne s’agisse plus vraisemblablement d’Américains
expatriés – est organisée dès le lendemain, jeudi 1<sup>er</sup> août. Elle
suscite un tel engouement de la part des sportifs locaux qu’un troisième match
est vivement sollicité et finalement organisé sur la pelouse de Saint-Cloud au
Bois de Boulogne le surlendemain, samedi 3 août, veille du départ de Fox et ses
joueurs[ix].
Cette dernière rencontre, décrite comme « <i>intéressante et animée</i> » rassemble
un public nombreux malgré un ciel menaçant et voit finalement l’équipe des Yale
Bulldogs s’imposer au terme de cinq innings[x].<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Malgré les efforts indéniables de
vulgarisation et d’explication des règles entrepris auprès du public, le
baseball semble être perçu par les non-initiés comme un sport dangereux, au
point que des gendarmes interviennent au cours de l’une de ces parties afin de mettre
un terme à cette « violence »[xi] (un « Français » s’interpose et leur fait finalement entendre raison).
C’est là le seul bémol relevé et on se souviendra que lors du <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/01/sept-petits-innings-pour-convaincre-les.html">match organisé par Spalding à Paris en mars 1889</a>, la blessure au genou de Wilkinson, joueur de
Chicago, avait déjà laissé le public sur une impression mitigée.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">A l’issue de cette série de
démonstrations, globalement convaincu que l'intérêt général manifesté par les
Parisiens est de bon augure pour l'adoption du jeu au rang des sports athlétiques
réguliers de France, le professeur Fox remercie « <i>les autorités</i> »
- comprendre principalement le vicomte de Janzé - pour leur soutien et, c’est
avec le sentiment du devoir accompli, qu’il quitte la France le lendemain, à
destination de l’Allemagne et de la Suisse, puis des Etats-Unis où il est de
retour en septembre[xii].<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Fin août 1895, une annonce -
toujours dans Le Figaro[xiii] - confirme que l’intérêt est loin d’être retombé et que de nouveaux matchs sont
organisés en septembre, sans qu’il soit malheureusement permis
d’en identifier les participants avec certitude :<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><blockquote>« <i>Deux parties de
base-ball seront jouées sur la pelouse de la Croix-Catelan, terrain du
Racing Club de France, au bois de Boulogne, les 2 et 3 septembre
prochains. </i>» </blockquote><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">A la fin de l'été, quelques
entrefilets dans la presse américaine laissent même entendre avec un certain
humour que le baseball connait un véritable boom dans la capitale française, où
l'on danse le cancan et entonne des chansons grivoises entre les manches...<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"> [xiv]</span>.
Incorrigibles Français !<o:p></o:p></p>
<div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><!--[if !supportEndnotes]-->________________________</div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><div id="edn1" style="mso-element: endnote;"><p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span> Plus d’informations
sur son histoire sur <a href="http://www.hopkins.edu">www.hopkins.edu</a>. Contacté, Mr. Thom Peters, actuel archiviste de la Hopkins School, a aimablement confirmé que Mr. Fox était bien à l'époque le recteur de l'école.</p><p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ii]</span></span></span> Voir The
daily morning journal and courier, 29 juin 1894, p. 8, qui nous indique qu’il a
embarqué l’année précédente à bord du « Paris » à destination de l’Europe,
soit juste après la tenue du Congrès de Paris.</p></div><div id="edn2" style="mso-element: endnote;"><p class="MsoEndnoteText"><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn3" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span> Entre
autres personnalités notables ayant joué pour cette équipe, le Président George
H. W. Bush en fut le capitaine en 1948.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn4" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span> « Pierre
de Coubertin et la querelle des quatre football », Patrick Clastres in
Yvan Gastaut et al., Le football dans nos sociétés.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn5" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">[v]</span></span> Voir « «
Napoléon et le football », in Les Sports athlétiques, 13 janvier 1894.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn6" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span> Ce club
de sport est fondé en 1873 (ou 1886 ?) par le vicomte de Janzé sur l’île
de Puteaux et offre en 1895 principalement une activité de lawn-tennis à ses
membres. Il accueille en 1891 la première finale du championnat de France officiel
de tennis.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn7" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span> Le
Figaro, 31 juillet 1895<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn8" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[viii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <span lang="EN-US">The American register for
Paris and the continent, 3 août 1895, p. 6.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn9" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ix]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <span lang="EN-US">Le Figaro, 4 août 1895, p. 4.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn10" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[x]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <span lang="EN-US">The American register for
Paris and the continent, 10 août 1895, p. 6.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn11" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <span lang="EN-US">The Indianapolis journal, 25
août 1895, p. 4.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn12" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <span lang="EN-US">The daily morning journal and
courier, 6 septembre 1895, p. 3.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn13" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xiii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span> Le
Figaro, 30 août 1895, p. 4.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn14" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xiv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <span lang="EN-US">The Wichita Daily Eagle, 23
août 1895, p. 3.</span></span></p></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5327037030152747570.post-39861051565948851482023-03-26T20:21:00.004+02:002023-04-28T17:46:09.205+02:00Tentative d’introduction au Racing Club de France <p style="text-align: justify;"> Le Journal des Sports du 30 mars 1898[i] relaie un appel lancé par le Racing Club de France à ses membres désireux de constituer une section de baseball :</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><blockquote>« <i>Le Comité du Racing Club de France n’étant pas opposé à la fondation d’une section de Base Ball, les </i><i>membres du RCF disposés à pratiquer ce sport sont priés de s’adresser à M. Guerra, 85, rue de la Pompe.</i> »</blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span></span></p><a name='more'></a>L’annonce est assez étonnante de par sa formulation à la tournure négative, qui laisse entendre que la décision de fonder une telle section n’aurait peut-être pas été des plus évidentes. Deux semaines plus tard, c’est dans le journal Le Vélo[ii] que les lecteurs attentifs peuvent prendre connaissance des modalités du premier rendez-vous des intéressés, preuve s’il en est qu’un certain nombre de membres ont répondu à l’invitation lancée par Guerra :<p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><blockquote>« <i>Les membres du Racing Club joueront demain </i>[dimanche 17 avril]<i> à 2h. ½ sur le terrain de la place </i><i>Collanges, à Clichy-Levallois, leur première partie d’entraînement.</i> »</blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">L’adresse indiquée est, selon les informations recueillies auprès de l’aimable Frédéric Humbert, spécialiste du rugby, celle d’un terrain de sport occupé à cette époque par le RCF à Levallois-Perret pour les entraînements et parfois les matchs des rugbymen, situé entre le cimetière et la gare de Clichy-Levallois desservie par la compagnie des Chemins de Fer de l’Ouest depuis la gare Saint Lazare.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieCd1QM-Yqz3lV-uzoocOKmgImagDbXE4Kci_Vz2tT6Ag8bJ3Ro2jteDCyVwugJE83HP2Tu0nNAlXc0AIns-CFuWll4YQGmZatLoGsO3fxE50GqNhaKqqP5ywSvDQJHrA-JFU0piR693g1qnBVXyKxMyKOJwUH5-ieKwDv7-XjHtb33q8n-m7UeTyMgg/s1024/1E9D05B6-C989-4A3C-9286-BDBB37D60363.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="1024" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieCd1QM-Yqz3lV-uzoocOKmgImagDbXE4Kci_Vz2tT6Ag8bJ3Ro2jteDCyVwugJE83HP2Tu0nNAlXc0AIns-CFuWll4YQGmZatLoGsO3fxE50GqNhaKqqP5ywSvDQJHrA-JFU0piR693g1qnBVXyKxMyKOJwUH5-ieKwDv7-XjHtb33q8n-m7UeTyMgg/w640-h406/1E9D05B6-C989-4A3C-9286-BDBB37D60363.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">La première gare de Clichy-Levallois. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh852t7BOQI6lZldzZPv_wJfeckX202r3vF0O5I6tgNNE1iTY0OtPQ3Kj2BMTtpjgpdC0vX9gFEODeMrJdfnuzvTPFWBV8KctH1RI0xTP80VNRxOdjgkyZ-w6DYLWSm4bf0fIkxH3I3FR7IffxQlqfLeVR2vhHg99hTbB9jssFYmyxaXYgVhHR2w5qQ6w/s1571/4A8314C6-C767-4F43-9B4E-CC6F96EF31C4.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="552" data-original-width="1571" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh852t7BOQI6lZldzZPv_wJfeckX202r3vF0O5I6tgNNE1iTY0OtPQ3Kj2BMTtpjgpdC0vX9gFEODeMrJdfnuzvTPFWBV8KctH1RI0xTP80VNRxOdjgkyZ-w6DYLWSm4bf0fIkxH3I3FR7IffxQlqfLeVR2vhHg99hTbB9jssFYmyxaXYgVhHR2w5qQ6w/w640-h224/4A8314C6-C767-4F43-9B4E-CC6F96EF31C4.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Extrait d’un plan de Neuilly-sur-Seine et de Levallois-Perret de 1884. </span></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Cette « première partie d'entraînement » est présentée le lendemain dans le journal<span style="text-align: left;">[iii]</span> comme ayant été très intéressante et très disputée en dépit de tâtonnements. Il y a eu manifestement suffisamment de joueurs pour constituer deux équipes, sous le capitanat de Davis d'un côté, et de Perry de l'autre. L'article décrit ces deux-là ainsi que Walsh et Rutherford comme des « vieux de la vieille », sans que l'on sache si cela signifie qu'ils ont une longue pratique du baseball derrière eux ou s'il s'agit de membres du RCF depuis un certain temps. A contrario, Contant, Guerry et Guerra figurent apparemment parmi les nouveaux.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Que donne cette initiative au delà de ce premier match amical ? Difficile en l’état de nos connaissances de ne pas en tirer la conclusion qu’elle est un échec dans la mesure où le sujet n’est plus abordé dans la presse dans les semaines et les mois qui suivent. Il faut attendre un an et demi pour obtenir un indice glissé dans une lettre datée du 21 septembre 1899 reproduite dans Le Journal des Sports deux jours plus tard[iv] dont l’auteur est un certain Edouard Pontié (15 Décembre 1877 - 26 Novembre 1940), alors âgé de 21 ans, qui deviendra par la suite un réputé journaliste sportif et écrivain, rédacteur en chef de « La Vie illustrée » ainsi que de la revue « Armes et Sports », et l’auteur de plusieurs ouvrages sur le sport et notamment en 1905 de « Le Football Association » et « Le Foot-ball Rugby ». Pontié écrit ainsi :</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">« <i>Mon cher Monsieur,</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Vous avez parlé du Base-Ball dans les colonnes du Journal des Sports. Vous rappelez-vous que ce jeu intéressant fut quelque peu pratiqué en France, et par des Français, il y a cinq ou six ans. Voulez-vous me permettre de compléter mes renseignements ?</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>J’ai vu jouer au jardin du Luxembourg, en 1892 ou 93, des parties de Base-Ball auxquelles je me suis mêlé parfois. Elles étaient organisées par la Société Sportive du Lycée Saint-Louis, aujourd’hui disparue, et attiraient quelques scolaires de la rive gauche. Elles se disputaient sur l’emplacement entouré de cordes qu’utilise maintenant le Hockey-Club de Paris pour son entraînement.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Plus tard les footbalers </i>[sic] <i>du Stade Français, pendant quelques dimanches d’été, reprirent ce sport, que certains d’entre-eux avaient pratiqué au Luxembourg. Les réunions eurent lieu à Meudon, sur les pelouses de l’Observatoire, que le Stade fréquentait à ce moment-là.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>De vieux unionistes doivent en avoir parfaitement conservé le souvenir.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Depuis lors, l’an passé, quelques Américains pratiquèrent leur jeu national au moment de la tentative qui fut faite au Racing Club pour y acclimater ce sport, ainsi que vous l’avez dit.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i><b>Mais le Racing a déjà tant de branches où s’exerce son activité sportive, que le Base-Ball eut à en souffrir.</b></i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Recevez, etc. </i>»</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6MDeBtvKTNzdH5DUvZEo1sJdOxC6b_1orp8SVJj9mTR4csP_J5UwMz2dTbq4GWgJeCHV94H899-RnZgsgXgTCBWYdlTlk3F3W1wdQZ90APK3tYria2iO9tFZXLZwzfh2-qYz7q6c9jywwHyyKG_MnE01YTVZq7Txk8RtbPJiYXlStilnIvdDZTF4vew/s1409/43164A35-7944-406E-9827-B11FAB998942.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1409" data-original-width="1024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6MDeBtvKTNzdH5DUvZEo1sJdOxC6b_1orp8SVJj9mTR4csP_J5UwMz2dTbq4GWgJeCHV94H899-RnZgsgXgTCBWYdlTlk3F3W1wdQZ90APK3tYria2iO9tFZXLZwzfh2-qYz7q6c9jywwHyyKG_MnE01YTVZq7Txk8RtbPJiYXlStilnIvdDZTF4vew/w466-h640/43164A35-7944-406E-9827-B11FAB998942.jpeg" width="466" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Édouard Pontié à son bureau en 1906.</span></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Et le journaliste de conclure son article par ces quelques mots : « <i>Si comme il faut l’espérer le Base-Ball devient populaire les intéressants détails que contient la lettre de M. Ed. Pontié fixeront pour les journalistes sportifs, les origines de l’introduction du jeu en France. </i>» Si les origines exactes sont encore loin d’être parfaitement établies, il est indéniable que la lettre de Pontié aura atteint un but en permettant aux générations suivantes d’y voir un peu plus clair.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">***</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">______________________________</div><p></p><p>[i] Le Journal des Sports, 30 mars 1898.</p><p>[ii] Le Vélo, 16 avril 1898, p. 3.</p><p>[iii] Le Vélo, 18 avril 1898, p. 3.</p><p>[iv] Le Journal des Sports, 23 septembre 1899.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5327037030152747570.post-40313095677109698812022-02-19T22:52:00.007+01:002023-04-04T17:00:20.747+02:00L’honneur de la maison Spalding – … Aux actes<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Au moment du décès de son père, Albert Goodwill Spalding Jr.
se trouve déjà depuis plus d’un an sur le front dans l’armée des alliés pour
défendre sa patrie d’adoption. William Vernon Burgess, fils de W. H. Burgess,
le précieux collaborateur de Spalding en France, le suit dans cette voie. En
août 1917, c’est le neveu d’Albert Goodwill Spalding, lui aussi nommé Albert
Spalding, qui s’engage à son tour et sert avec le grade de first lieutenant
dans l’Aviation Section Signal Corps. Leur engagement constitue le point de
départ de ce nouveau chapitre de l’histoire du baseball en France, celui de la
Grande Guerre.<span></span></p><a name='more'></a> <p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEir1PbTgPGNqMMmgAAE-ky9KxYqgQLWVl5sPh8rteqWdVh0x5P6D7H42fsTTTE2qY2g53q9B_tnALnrFIJnUfcQNjPfMFZZtTqZRGismGuRsWKA-2xA2ze6O3IlyiWDvjcBtqcBaJdA-P-LyyF1kr7e8j2u5PlteHi2HssSP4nOO5MtQr6jAYl-INUi-Q=s476" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="364" data-original-width="476" height="490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEir1PbTgPGNqMMmgAAE-ky9KxYqgQLWVl5sPh8rteqWdVh0x5P6D7H42fsTTTE2qY2g53q9B_tnALnrFIJnUfcQNjPfMFZZtTqZRGismGuRsWKA-2xA2ze6O3IlyiWDvjcBtqcBaJdA-P-LyyF1kr7e8j2u5PlteHi2HssSP4nOO5MtQr6jAYl-INUi-Q=w640-h490" width="640" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Photo prise devant les établissements Spalding, rue Tronchet à Paris, représentant des hommes en uniforme parmi lesquels figurent vraisemblablement Albert Goodwill Spalding Jr. et William Vernon Burgess. Qui sont les deux autres hommes et la femme en retrait derrière ? <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 12px;">Cette photo non légendée figure dans l’ouvrage « </span><i style="font-size: 12px;">Comment on joue à la balle au camp</i><span style="font-size: 12px;"> », publié par la Bibliothèque Spalding d’Athlétisme en 1919.</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-align: justify;"><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Albert Goodwill Splading Jr. s'engage dès le 29 août 1914. On peut imaginer que c'est par commodité qu'il prend la décision d'intégrer l'armée Britannique. De fait, il intègre le 5th Dragoon Guards, une unité de cavalerie alors stationnée à Aldershot dans le Hampshire. Il est transféré peu de temps après au 3rd Battalion des
Coldstream Guards, où il est promu lance corporal le <st1:date day="27" ls="trans" month="4" w:st="on" year="19">27 avril 19</st1:date>15. Sur le front
de l’Ouest, il prend notamment part à la bataille de Festubert en mai 1915 (16
000 pertes pour une avancée de moins d'un kilomètre…), puis à celle de Loos
dans le Pas-de-Calais en septembre 1915<a href="file:///C:/Users/Jean-Christophe/Dropbox/Blog/2019/9%20L'honneur%20de%20la%20maison%20Spalding%20I%20et%20II%20-%201914.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[i]</span></span></span></a>,
deux semaines à peine après le décès de son illustre père.</div></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">En novembre 1915, il passe au 10ème bataillon du Royal
Inniskilling Fusiliers, où il est promu Second Lieutenant et participe en
avril 1916 à la bataille de Hulluch, à quelques kilomètres au nord de
Loos-en-Gohelle.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Il meurt au combat, à l’âge de 25 ans, près de Thiepval, le
1er juillet 1916, première journée de la bataille de la Somme, ainsi que 60.000
autres Britanniques le même jour. Son commandant écrit alors à son sujet :</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><blockquote><b>« <i>C’était l’un
des plus braves et intrépides officiers qu’il m’ait été donné de rencontrer ;
il était populaire auprès de tous les officiers et les hommes de ce bataillon</i> ».</b></blockquote><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Son nom – et donc celui de son Père - est gravé à jamais sur
le Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, inauguré par le Prince de Galles<a href="file:///C:/Users/Jean-Christophe/Dropbox/Blog/2019/9%20L'honneur%20de%20la%20maison%20Spalding%20I%20et%20II%20-%201914.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[ii]</span></span></span></a>
en présence du Président Albert Lebrun le 31 juillet 1932. Ce nom figure par
ailleurs toujours actuellement sur le tableau des membres tombés au champ
d’honneur exposé à l’entrée du pavillon du Golf de Chantilly.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"> <a href="file:///C:/Users/Jean-Christophe/Dropbox/Blog/2019/9%20L'honneur%20de%20la%20maison%20Spalding%20I%20et%20II%20-%201914.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[iii]</span></span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">William Vernon
Burgess, quant à lui, intègre le Royal Berkshire Regiment Goldsmiths' College
de la British Army avec le grade de Second Lieutenant. Il meurt au combat le <st1:date day="19" ls="trans" month="7" w:st="on" year="19">19 juillet 19</st1:date>16,
lors de la bataille de la Somme, soit moins de trois semaine après Albert
Goodwill Spalding Jr.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Son nom figure aussi sur le Thiepval Memorial to the
Missing of the Somme.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Albert
Spalding (1888-1953), fils de James Walter Spalding, le plus jeune frère
d’Albert Goodwill Spalding, et par conséquent cousin d’Albert Goodwill Spalding
Jr., s’engage en août 1917 dans l’Army Air Service et sert principalement en
Italie, où il se voit décerner la croix de l’ordre de la Couronne d’Italie,
ainsi qu’aux côtés du Major La Guardia, fameux Congressman de New York<a href="file:///C:/Users/Jean-Christophe/Dropbox/Blog/2019/9%20L'honneur%20de%20la%20maison%20Spalding%20I%20et%20II%20-%201914.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[iv]</span></span></span></a>. Violoniste virtuose
et compositeur, ce représentant de la famille Spalding survivra à la guerre et
mourra en 1953, sans jamais s'impliquer dans le développement du baseball.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">
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de la composante britannique de l'offensive alliée connue sous le nom de
deuxième bataille de l'Artois.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Roi Edouard VIII.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Times, 29 juillet 1916 ; “Lieut. <span lang="EN-GB">Spalding Killed In Action In France”, in The Evening World, <st1:date day="7" ls="trans" month="7" w:st="on" year="19">7 <span lang="EN-US">juillet</span> 19</st1:date>16 ; “Lieutenant
Spalding Killed In France”, in New-York Tribune, <st1:date day="8" ls="trans" month="7" w:st="on" year="19">8 <span lang="EN-US">juillet</span>
19</st1:date>16 ; “</span><span lang="EN-US">Dans</span><span lang="EN-GB"> les </span><span lang="EN-US">cercles</span><span lang="EN-GB">”, in Le </span><span lang="EN-US">Gaulois</span><span lang="EN-GB">, <st1:date day="30" ls="trans" month="9" w:st="on" year="19">30 <span lang="EN-US">septembre</span>
19</st1:date>19 ; « Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of
the Early Game », par John Thorn, edition Simon & Schuster, New York,
2011.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span>Avec la déclaration de guerre, Spalding voit subitement ses années de travail consacrées à la </span><span> propagation des idéaux de l’Olympisme et de l’amitié entre les peuples réduites à néant, la perspective des Jeux de Berlin effacée en un instant, les rêves d’expansion de son sport balayés d’un revers de main, toute une génération de jeunes gens dont la vie va basculer. Trop absorbé par sa mission, trop obsédé par l'œuvre de sa vie, il n’a pas entendu que toutes les nations d’Europe entonnaient le péan depuis fort longtemps.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span></span></p><a name='more'></a>En véritable homme d’action, Spalding ne tarde toutefois pas
à réagir. Alors que les Etats-Unis sont neutres, en ami passionné de la France il
n’hésite pas un instant et envoie dès le début du conflit cette note interne
dans les sociétés de son groupe, qui ne laisse aucun doute sur sa position
et ses intentions :<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><b>« <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nous ne sommes
pas neutres ; les Spalding ne peuvent rester neutres quand il s’agit d’une
lutte pour le triomphe de la justice et de la liberté de l’humanité ; ils
ne peuvent rester indifférents au sort de frères de sang et d’idéal
commun ; nous sommes par conséquent des pro-alliés</i> »<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"> <a href="file:///C:/Users/Jean-Christophe/Dropbox/Blog/2019/9%20L'honneur%20de%20la%20maison%20Spalding%20I%20et%20II%20-%201914.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></span>.</b></blockquote><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Tout est dit.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiwF4UBZ-iKL--28-ZojA87_DbxJBaPGWi4OT9pHIApIPc2Kdun8hXK-_iR7HC9Nkths-iubOHMkCwANQpqX8vqueVVgnK2sY3Nwij45n3vxuTJNuShAGDqJuVE9pFCaiRrQwv9u8DaC654wlkART3FiU6YEpEUSssg4S4fd7RO_Kt9F62wxHQ8u8wV3w=s225" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="224" data-original-width="225" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiwF4UBZ-iKL--28-ZojA87_DbxJBaPGWi4OT9pHIApIPc2Kdun8hXK-_iR7HC9Nkths-iubOHMkCwANQpqX8vqueVVgnK2sY3Nwij45n3vxuTJNuShAGDqJuVE9pFCaiRrQwv9u8DaC654wlkART3FiU6YEpEUSssg4S4fd7RO_Kt9F62wxHQ8u8wV3w=w400-h398" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">C’est à Point Loma en Californie, qu’il s’éteint tragiquement le <st1:date day="9" ls="trans" month="9" w:st="on" year="19">9 septembre 19</st1:date>15, à 65 ans, des suites d’un accident vasculaire cérébral.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Le décès d’Albert Goodwill Spalding produit une onde de choc
dans l’ensemble du milieu sportif, et tout particulièrement à New York, où le
New York Times n’hésite pas à affirmer qu’il est le père du baseball
professionnel<a href="file:///C:/Users/Jean-Christophe/Dropbox/Blog/2019/9%20L'honneur%20de%20la%20maison%20Spalding%20I%20et%20II%20-%201914.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[ii]</span></span></span></a>. En
France, le journaliste de la rubrique nécrologique du journal Le Gaulois<a href="file:///C:/Users/Jean-Christophe/Dropbox/Blog/2019/9%20L'honneur%20de%20la%20maison%20Spalding%20I%20et%20II%20-%201914.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[iii]</span></span></span></a>
écrit alors à son sujet : </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b></b></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><b>« <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">C’est non
seulement un homme aimé et respecté qui s’en va subitement, en pleine force
d’âge et de vigueur intellectuelle, mais un des plus grands amis de la France
qui disparaît</i> ».</b></blockquote><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Les acteurs du baseball Français, eux, sont doublement orphelins
et doutent que la prophétie de Spalding s’accomplisse un jour : Will the
next baseball country really be France? Ce qui est sûr, c’est que sa mort
marque la fin d’une ère.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">***</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Jean-Christophe/Dropbox/Blog/2019/9%20L'honneur%20de%20la%20maison%20Spalding%20I%20et%20II%20-%201914.docx#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[ii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> « Spalding One Of Baseball’s
Leader », in The New York Times, <st1:date day="11" ls="trans" month="9" w:st="on" year="19">11 <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">septembre</span>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5327037030152747570.post-52646166547332403062021-09-09T17:41:00.001+02:002023-04-04T17:00:37.307+02:00L'Appel<p><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A partir du </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">31 juillet 1914</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">jour de l</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">’</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">assass</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">inat de Jean Jaurès, </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">p</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">lusieurs intellectuels étrangers en </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">France font paraître dans la presse des appels au soutien de leur patrie d’adoption.</span></span></p><p><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Parmi eux, </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">l</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">’Américain</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Georges Casmèze </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">reprend </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">l</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">e </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">3</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">août</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">alors que l</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">’</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Allemagne</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">de Guillaume II</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">déclare la guerre à la </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">France</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">,</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">l’appel rédigé par l’auteur suisse Blaise Cendrars quelques jours plus tôt </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">et </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">publie </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">ainsi </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">un article dans le New York Herald</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">. Cet article</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">fait naître chez </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">un grand nombre </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">de </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">ses concitoyens</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">–</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">y compris, comme nous le verrons, ceux participant au développement de</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">s </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">activités du baseball </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">–</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">la volonté de passer à l’action</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">. </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">C</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">es volontaires américains</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">se heurtent </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">cependant </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">pour l</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">’</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">heure </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">à deux problèmes majeurs</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">: d’une part, la neutralité des Etats</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span 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</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">encourent la déch</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">éance de leur nationalité</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">; </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">d’autre part, l’armée française n’accueille pas encor</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">e les étrangers dans ses rangs.</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></p><p><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span 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face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">chang</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">e tout </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">pour eux </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">en</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">autorisant tous les </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">étrangers</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">,</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">à partir du 21 août seulement, à</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">s’engager dans la Légion Etrangère</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">pour la durée de la </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">guerre.</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">En conséquence de la poussée allemande en direction de la Marne, </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">les engagements se </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">précipitent.</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Le poète Alan Seeger</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">,</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">qui</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">quelques semaines </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">auparavant</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">avait convaincu </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Guillaume </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Appolinaire de publier un </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">très long </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">article sur le baseball dans</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">L</span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">es</span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Soirées de Paris</span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(lire </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.com/2014/06/surrealiste.html">Surréaliste !</a></span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">)</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">défile </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">le 25 août</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">,</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">totalement exalté</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">,</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">en brandissant la bannière étoilée à la tête </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">de</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">dizaines de ses </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">compatriotes</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Américains de</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Paris</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">décidé</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">s</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">à</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">se battre.</span></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJJr9TawpiCbnnp94ozs1uyY5fnX9a3COET0qBPtPyC_FTM7mRmicLQftIznF_koFxthilg2I6ejMTXKHderoQHnfNRm135JroFfii2IZ1y8k6fnFc8rODjYS6_xdaYmcTNpC7j7rYc_aV/s442/Seeger+d%25C3%25A9filant+%25C3%25A0+Paris.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="302" data-original-width="442" height="438" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJJr9TawpiCbnnp94ozs1uyY5fnX9a3COET0qBPtPyC_FTM7mRmicLQftIznF_koFxthilg2I6ejMTXKHderoQHnfNRm135JroFfii2IZ1y8k6fnFc8rODjYS6_xdaYmcTNpC7j7rYc_aV/w640-h438/Seeger+d%25C3%25A9filant+%25C3%25A0+Paris.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div style="text-align: center;">Alan Seeger défile en tête des volontaires américains place de L'Opéra à Paris le 25 août 1914.</div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Un</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">autre</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">étudiant </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">de Harvard dont l’affirmation</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, comme une bien naïve réponse à son camarade </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Seeger</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, est </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">publiée dans la toute dernière édition de </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Harvard Bulletin</span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">n’y changera rien</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">:</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></span></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">«</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Je crois que s’ils avaient </span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">eu </span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">un championnat régulier de baseball en Europe, avec Berlin, Paris, Londres, </span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Vienne, etc. comme participants, ainsi qu’une ligue mineur</span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">e</span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">incluant Belgrade, Bruxelles et quelques autr</span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">es </span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">capitales, les fans n’auraient jamais toléré le déclenchement de cette guerre durant la saison de baseball, et si </span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">elle avait été r</span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">emise à après les World </span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Series</span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">ils auraient eu tout le loisir de reprendre leurs esprits et sans </span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">doute n’auraient</span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">-</span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">il jamais</span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">eu cette guerre</span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">.</span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">»[i]</span></span></span></span></blockquote><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></span><p></p><p><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></p><p></p><p><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">C</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">ette</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">idée sera </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">très</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">souvent</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">reprise </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">dans la presse </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">par la suite</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">. A</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">insi </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">pourra</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">-</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">t</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">-</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">on lire</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">par exemple</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">:</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></i></span></p><blockquote><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">«</span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Et si des championnats internationaux avaient existé, semblables à ceux entre les villes des Etats</span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">-</span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Unis et </span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">du Canada, il est indubitable que les effets auraient été favorables à la paix.</span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[…] </span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Est</span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">-</span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">ce une s</span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">ottise</span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">? Le </span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">lecteur de l’histoire antique ne le dira pas. Les jeux ont fait autant pour la promotion de la solidarité que la </span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">religion grecque. </span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">»</span></i></span> <span face="Garamond, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px;">[ii]</span></blockquote><span face="Garamond, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px;"></span><p></p><p><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Quelques mois plus tard, constat</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">ant tout ce gâchis, Foster écrira</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">dans son éditorial du</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Spalding’s </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Base Ball Guide [iii]</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">:</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></p><p><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">«</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">S</span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">ans le malheureux déclenchement des hostilités générales en 1914, les progrès du baseball en France </span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">auraient été plus marqués que dans n’importe quelle autre nation d’Europe.</span></i></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">»</span></span></blockquote><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span><p></p><p><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></p><p><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></p><p><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></p><p><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 6.48pt;"></span></span></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></div><p></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="FR">Oui, le temps de l'insouciance est définitivement révolu.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="FR"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span lang="FR">***</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span lang="FR"><br /></span></div></div><p><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 6.48pt;">i</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 9.96pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 9.96pt;">«</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 9.96pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 9.96pt;">Wars Should Never Interfere With Baseball</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 9.96pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 9.96pt;">», in The Day, 18 </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 9.96pt;">décembre</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 9.96pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 9.96pt;">1914.</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 9.96pt;"></span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 9.96pt;"></span></span></p><p><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 6.48pt;">ii</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 9.96pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 9.96pt;">I</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 9.96pt;">n The Tacoma Times, 2 juin 1915, p. 2.</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 9.96pt;"></span></span></p><p><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 6.48pt;">iii</span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 9.96pt;"> </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 9.96pt;">Spalding’s Base Ball Guide 1915, p. </span></span><span face="Garamond,sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 9.96pt;">35.</span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5327037030152747570.post-16142275809776232692019-05-19T14:24:00.002+02:002023-04-04T17:00:49.625+02:00Le couperet<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="FR">Comment arrêter cette machine aux rouages implacables qui,
depuis l’assassinat de l’Archiduc Héritier d'Autriche François Ferdinand à
Sarajevo le 28 juin 1914, s’est mise en marche et s’apprête à broyer
inexorablement ces anciens et vastes empires ? (Lire <a href="https://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.com/2014/10/sur-le-fil.html" target="_blank">Sur le fil</a>) Comment les
hommes pourraient-ils échapper à leur destin individuel et collectif ? Quel
sens donner à tout cela ? Pourquoi donc cette course vers le précipice, le
néant ? « <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">La volonté de Dieu
s'est accomplie !</i> », voici ce qu’annonce au Parlement le Premier Ministre de Hongrie
en cet été 1914. Explication bien commode, écartant d’emblée la responsabilité
des différents gouvernements, exonérant de toute faute les hommes et leurs
instincts les plus vils.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR"><span><a name='more'></a></span>Tous les hommes ne se résignent pas pour
autant aussi facilement. Tenter d’éviter le pire, c’est ce que fait le baron
de Constant de Rebecque, sénateur de la Sarthe, lauréat du prix Nobel de la Paix en 1909. Avec une
énergie folle, refusant d’admettre l’inéluctable, ralliant à lui ses amis tel
l’Allemand Otto Umfrid<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span>,
il s’évertue à mettre ses théories en application immédiate, et comme l’arbitre
de baseball qu’il voulait être (lire <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.com/2013/02/duel-baseball-et-prix-nobel-de-la-paix.html" target="_blank">Duel, baseball et Prix Nobel de la Paix</a>),
il tente de se dresser entre les adversaires et se débat pour tâcher d’imposer
son autorité. C’est sa mission, c’est toute l’œuvre de sa vie qui est en jeu.
Hélas, il a beau œuvré jusqu’au bout pour le rapprochement
franco-allemand, il a beau essayé de convaincre les représentants des nations
engagées que le salut de celles-ci passera forcément par le pardon et la
création d’une grande confédération européenne, que le vrai risque est celui à
terme d'une domination économique et politique de l'Europe par l'Amérique du
Nord et l'Asie, tout ceci n’est à ce stade désormais rien de plus qu’un inutile
verbiage. A part ses disciples, plus personne n’écoute ce prophète. Puisque
l’on vous dit que c’est la volonté de Dieu !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR">Le 31 juillet, Jaurès est assassiné.</span><br />
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Constant de Rebecque, écrira plus tard à son sujet :<br />
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<i>Une heure avant d'être assassiné, je l'ai vu ; il accourait au Quai d'Orsay, ce 31 juillet au soir, adjurer Abel Ferry. Je vois, j'entends encore la douleur, la sainte révolte de ce noble coeur, impuissant à briser le intrigues qu'il soupçonnait et dont le triomphe épouvantable allait éclater. Il demandait à chacun de nous ce que nous suggérions, ce qu'on pouvait faire pour empêcher l'explosion ; et je le vois allant de l'un à l'autre, se tordant les mains, s'écriant, hurlant : "Rien ! Voilà tout ce que vous trouvez à faire ! Rien ! Rien !" J'entends encore sa belle voix déchirée et ce mot terrible, son dernier cri : "Rien, rien à faire !" Mais j'en comprends mieux aujourd'hui, après tout le sang répandu, la terrible signification.</i></blockquote>
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<span lang="FR">La mobilisation est décrétée dès le lendemain en France. Le 3 août, l'Allemagne déclare la guerre à la France.</span><br />
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<span lang="FR"><br /></span>
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<span lang="FR">Dès le lendemain, 4 août 1914<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">[ii]</span></span></span></span>,
le bureau du Conseil de l’<a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.com/2013/01/lusfsa-premiere-structure-federale.html" target="_blank">USFSA</a> se réunit en urgence en présence de son
Secrétaire Général Franz Reichel<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">[iii]</span></span></span></span>
et de deux de ces membres, Messieurs Henri Glin et Henri Vieillard. Ensemble,
ils promettent d’assurer la surveillance des services unionistes qu’il est
encore possible de remplir<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">[iv]</span></span></span></span>
et proclament d’une voix unanime :</span> </div>
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<span lang="FR"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>« <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vive la France ! C’est le seul cri qui
convienne, c’est le seul que nous pousserons avec la confiance profonde d’une
victoire prochaine, complète et définitive. […] la mobilisation, la guerre nous
ont surpris en pleine activité ; la tâche n’est qu’ajournée, elle sera reprise
et avec d’autant plus d’ardeur et de confiance, que ce que nous avons fait
depuis vingt-sept années aura, dans les heures suprêmes que nous vivons, montré
son utilité.</i> »</span></div>
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Il faut relire cette dernière phrase avec
beaucoup d’attention pour constater à quel point les hommes de cette génération
sont imprégnés de l’esprit de revanche. Il faut, pour bien comprendre toute la
portée de leurs mots, avoir encore en tête la cuisante défaite française de 1870,
et se souvenir que, pour eux, le salut de la Nation devait nécessairement
passer par une profonde réforme de l’éducation destinée à faire émerger une
nouvelle race de soldats virils et athlétiques (lire <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.com/2013/01/sept-petits-innings-pour-convaincre-les.html" target="_blank">Sept petits innings pourconvaincre les Français ?</a>). Il faut impérativement garder à l’esprit l’épisode
de la prise des collines de San Juan par les Rough Riders de Theodore Roosevelt
en juillet 1898 pour comprendre l’une des raisons de l’intérêt pour le baseball
(lire <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.com/2013/02/les-champs-de-baseball-de-lamerique.html" target="_blank">Les champs de baseball de l’Amérique</a>).</div>
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<span lang="FR">Pour un peu, on croirait presque entendre
Franz Reichel se réjouir que la guerre éclate et que la pertinence de ces
théories puisse enfin être démontrée.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="FR"><br /></span>
<span lang="FR">Pour un peu, on aurait presque envie de pleurer devant tant de naïveté.</span><br />
<span lang="FR"><br /></span>
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<span lang="FR">***</span></div>
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<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="FR"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "garamond"; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span><span lang="FR"> La remise du Prix Nobel de la paix est retardée à cause de la Première
Guerre mondiale qui vient d'éclater. Otto Umfrid se trouve parmi les six
candidats nommés pour le prix, qui ne sera finalement pas décerné.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="FR"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "garamond"; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">[ii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span><span lang="FR"> In Tous les sports, 7 août 1914.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="FR"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "garamond"; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">[iii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span><span lang="FR"> Par ailleurs aussi Secrétaire Général du Comité des Sports.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="FR"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "garamond"; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">[iv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span><span lang="FR"> Procès-verbal paru dans Tous les sports, 7 août 1914, p. 3 (467).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5327037030152747570.post-9711512747878058882019-05-04T03:31:00.002+02:002019-05-04T12:02:06.923+02:00Most Wanted<br />
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">Quelle
agitation, quelle effervescence en ce dimanche 12 avril 1914 au New York
Theatre</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Jean-Christophe/Dropbox/Blog/Most%20Wanted%20-%201914.docx#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 107%;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"> ! L’Anglo-American Film Corporation et John J.
Gleason y présentent en avant-première le film événement « The
Giants-White Sox Tour » sur la récente <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.com/2014/03/la-tournee-mondiale-des-chicago-white.html" target="_blank">tournée mondiale des deux équipes</a></span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Jean-Christophe/Dropbox/Blog/Most%20Wanted%20-%201914.docx#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 107%;">[ii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">. Incapables d’attendre l’opening day de la saison qui a
pourtant lieu le lendemain, trois à quatre mille personnes<a href="file:///C:/Users/Jean-Christophe/Dropbox/Blog/Most%20Wanted%20-%201914.docx#_edn3" name="_ednref3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; line-height: 107%;">[iii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
se pressent aux portes de la magnifique salle de spectacle du numéro 1514-16 sur
Broadway dans l’espoir d’obtenir un siège ou bien même un strapontin, pour y contempler
leurs idoles.<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj59cEPtGs949x9Wu69jTdMlOV-7xxV7klbAsfUjcaO9uUTn0xAUX1Wucm0E1uJXsuNsvtCdwmGIAPTAniwZznKSExk9XnUM6kbHaFbFkIX_2e6me3flmfKuZXz3iWHEj6IQY3AWjr5dX4a/s1600/Hammerstein%2527s_Olympia%252C_Longacre_%2528Times%2529_Square%252C_Manhattan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="800" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj59cEPtGs949x9Wu69jTdMlOV-7xxV7klbAsfUjcaO9uUTn0xAUX1Wucm0E1uJXsuNsvtCdwmGIAPTAniwZznKSExk9XnUM6kbHaFbFkIX_2e6me3flmfKuZXz3iWHEj6IQY3AWjr5dX4a/s400/Hammerstein%2527s_Olympia%252C_Longacre_%2528Times%2529_Square%252C_Manhattan.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Le New York Theatre en 1914.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">Entendons-nous
bien, il ne s’agit pas d’un vulgaire montage couvrant simplement les matchs de
baseball joués tout au long du périple. Non, non, cette œuvre, point culminant
d’une communication maîtrisée de bout en bout pendant de longs mois, </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">tient assurément du génie parce que c’est à la
fois une comédie et le premier réel documentaire sportif de tous les temps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">C’est
en effet une comédie de et avec l’acteur Frank McGlynn Sr. dans le rôle d’un « bug »
- c’est-à-dire un fan particulièrement enthousiaste – qui, apprenant en 1913 que
les Giants partent en tournée mondiale, décide de se joindre à eux. Faute
d’argent, il le fera comme passager clandestin, ce qui ne manquera pas de le placer
dans des situations rocambolesques</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Jean-Christophe/Dropbox/Blog/Most%20Wanted%20-%201914.docx#_edn4" name="_ednref4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn4;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 107%;">[iv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">. Le scénario, un peu léger, est surtout prétexte à valoriser
quelques-uns des personnages bien réels de cette histoire. Entre autres scènes originales,
figurent notamment une course sur les bases entre Hans Lobert</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Jean-Christophe/Dropbox/Blog/Most%20Wanted%20-%201914.docx#_edn5" name="_ednref5" style="mso-endnote-id: edn5;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 107%;">[v]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"> et un cheval de course à Oxnard, un combat à la manière
des jeux du cirque entre Jim Thorpe et Fred Merkle dans le Colisée de Rome, la
rencontre avec le roi George V ou bien encore celle avec le Pape Pie X.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ailleurs, c’est bel et bien un documentaire sur toute l’aventure, montrant
aussi bien le voyage que les étapes et mêlant dans les séquences joueurs et accompagnateurs.
Tout y est - de la Californie à Londres, en passant par Tokyo, Shanghai,
Manille, Sydney, Ceylan, Le Caire et ses pyramides, mais aussi et surtout pour
ce qui nous concerne la France - et tous y sont de même ! Imaginez
seulement sur grand écran : les légendes John McGraw, Charles Comiskey et Ted
Sullivan à La Faisanderie de Saint-Cloud, les lancers ravageurs de Christy Mathewson
sous le soleil de la Côte d'Azur, Germany Schaefer et Jim Thorpe qui régalent
le public de <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.com/2014/03/nice-hit.html" target="_blank">Nice</a>, l’un de ses facéties,</span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">l’autre de ses talents d’athlète, peut-être <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.com/2013/04/muhr-et-le-comite-de-paris.html" target="_blank">Muhr</a>, <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.com/2013/03/messerly-et-lunion-francaise-de-base.html" target="_blank">Messerly </a>et <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.com/2013/11/les-premiers-parrains-dubonnet-1913.html" target="_blank">Dubonnet</a> parmi les milliers d’anonymes dans les gradins du <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.com/2014/03/paris-rendez-vous-manque.html" target="_blank">Parc des Princes</a>, etc.</span></div>
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la caméra durant tout le voyage, a officié Victor Milner. Il n’était certes âgé
que de 21 ans au moment d’embarquer mais il était déjà non seulement talentueux<a href="file:///C:/Users/Jean-Christophe/Dropbox/Blog/Most%20Wanted%20-%201914.docx#_edn6" name="_ednref6" style="mso-endnote-id: edn6;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; line-height: 107%;">[vi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
mais aussi plutôt intrépide. Il semble par exemple que, en route vers le Japon le
29 novembre 1913, alors que le navire essuyait une formidable tempête et
frôlait le naufrage, il n’hésitât pas à s’installer sur le pont pour filmer les
vagues avec sa caméra. Chose à peine croyable, malgré la profusion d’images et
la fatigue du voyage, il lui faudra moins d’un mois pour monter le film à
partir de son arrivée à New York. A ce stade, un modeste cocorico
s’impose : Ce film a été réalisé sur pellicule fournie par la Pathé
Company, filiale newyorkaise ouverte en 1904 de la société française Pathé
Frères, à l’époque la plus grande société de production et d'équipement
cinématographique au monde, déjà inventrice du film d'actualités projeté dans
les cinémas avant le long métrage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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y a-t-il eu de séances et combien de spectateurs ont-ils vu ce film à New York ou
ailleurs en 1914 et par la suite ? Nul ne le sait. Plus tard, en mai 1915, Ted Sullivan
assistera à une projection au Grand Theatre de Keokuk, dans l’Iowa, organisée
au profit partiel de la Keokuk Baseball Association, durant laquelle il
commentera les images et répondra aux questions du public<a href="file:///C:/Users/Jean-Christophe/Dropbox/Blog/Most%20Wanted%20-%201914.docx#_edn7" name="_ednref7" style="mso-endnote-id: edn7;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; line-height: 107%;">[vii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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peut-on actuellement visionner ce petit bijou du septième art et admirer
les images associées au passage des équipes en France ? A vrai dire… nulle
part. Ce film extraordinaire a tout bonnement disparu depuis 1915. Il s’est purement volatilisé
sans que personne n’ait aucun indice sur son destin. Absolument rien ne<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>permet de déterminer ce qu’il en est advenu,
si des copies en ont été faites, s’il a été détruit ou s’il est quelque part au
fond d’une boîte, elle-même au fond d’un grenier. En plus de cent ans et malgré
les efforts de très nombreuses personnes, jamais aucun indice n’a permis de
remonter une quelconque piste sérieuse. C’est là l’un des plus grands mystères
de l’industrie cinématographique. Si le cœur vous en dit, n’hésitez pas à vous
mettre en chasse ; la prime offerte à qui le retrouvera est des plus
élevées.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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a disparu, comment savons-nous ce que montre vraiment ce film, demanderez-vous ?
Tout simplement au travers de la couverture faite par la presse, notamment de
la série de cinq articles écrits sur le sujet par Frank McGlynn Sr. et publiés dans
The Baseball Magazine entre août et décembre 1914<a href="file:///C:/Users/Jean-Christophe/Dropbox/Blog/Most%20Wanted%20-%201914.docx#_edn8" name="_ednref8" style="mso-endnote-id: edn8;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; line-height: 107%;">[viii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>. </span></div>
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des tourists à Londres. Il faudra s’en contenter.<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Jean-Christophe/Dropbox/Blog/Most%20Wanted%20-%201914.docx#_ednref3" name="_edn3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; line-height: 107%;">[iii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <span lang="EN-US">“ World’s baseball tour in
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efficace, était capable de courir très vite. Avec les Cincinnati Reds de 1908
1908, l’une de ses meilleures années, il vole 47 bases et frappe 18 triples. Il
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1935, il gagnera l'Oscar de la meilleure photographie pour le Cléopâtre de
Cecil B. DeMille. Au long de sa carrière, il aura huit autres nominations, la
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Le sixième Congrès Olympique qui se tient à Paris </span><span style="color: black;">en juin 1914 </span><span style="color: black;">est l’occasion de célébrer en grande </span><span style="color: black;">pompe le vingtième anniversaire du rétablissement des Jeux Olympiques[</span><span style="color: black;">i]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">(lire <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/01/au-berceau-de-lolympisme.html" target="_blank">Au berceau de </a></span><a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/01/au-berceau-de-lolympisme.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span></a><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/01/au-berceau-de-lolympisme.html" target="_blank">olympisme</a>)</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et de préparer </span><span style="color: black;">activement </span><span style="color: black;">ceux de </span><span style="color: black;">Berlin en </span><span style="color: black;">1916. </span><span style="color: black;">A </span><span style="color: black;">l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">occasion</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">de cette grand</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">messe </span><span style="color: black;">particulièrement festi</span><span style="color: black;">ve</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">ponctuée</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">de</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">démonstrations sportives, de</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">pièces de théâtre, de</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">prestat</span><span style="color: black;">ions </span><span style="color: black;">musicales et de</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">splendides</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">réceptions</span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">l</span><span style="color: black;">e drapeau olympique </span><span style="color: black;">figurant les</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">cinq anneaux </span><span style="color: black;">de couleur </span><span style="color: black;">entrelacés sur un fond blanc, </span><span style="color: black;">conception</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">de Pierre de Coubertin direct</span><span style="color: black;">ement inspirée du symbole </span><span style="color: black;">de l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">U.S.F.S.A.</span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">est présenté pour la première fois. </span><span style="color: black;">C</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">est également lors de ce Congrès qu</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">une </span><span style="color: black;">première tentative de détermination</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">de c</span><span style="color: black;">ritères objectifs </span><span style="color: black;">conditionnant </span><span style="color: black;">l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">inscription de telle ou telle </span><span style="color: black;">discipline</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">sur la liste officielle des épreuves est faite.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">James E. Sullivan, chef de l’American Amateur Athletic Union</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et proche d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Albert G. Spalding</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">déploie des efforts considérables </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">dans l’amphithéâtre de la </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Sorbonne </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pour essayer de convaincre le </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Comité International Olympique que </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ce noble sport qu</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">est le</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">baseball mérite de figurer au </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">programme des</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">prochains</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Jeux. A l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">appui de sa démonstration</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de la mondialisation de la pratique</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, il </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">cite les progrès fulgurant</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">s</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">obtenus dans divers pays, dont </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">l’Angleterre</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">mais</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">surtout bien </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">évidemment</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et en premier lieu</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">la France</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Il lui est </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">sèchement </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">rétorqué que le baseball </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">doit </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">impérativement</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">être joué dans</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">au moins</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">six nations pour être admis </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et que, malheureusement, les </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pays récemment initiés n’y </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">jouent pas encore à un point tel qu’il puisse être affirmé que la pratique y </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">est généralement admise[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ii]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">…</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Sullivan proteste, insiste</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">soutient, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">dresse la </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">liste</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">En vain</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">;</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">rien n</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">y fait. A proprement parler, si la pratique en France ne semble pas soulever d'interrogations outre mesure et paraît même pouvoir être considérée comme acquise, la délégation Anglaise rejette catégoriquement l'affirmation selon laquelle le baseball serait pratiqué outre-Manche. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Cette raison en vaut finalement bien une autre pour écarter s</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ans ménagement ce sport à l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">origine du </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">grand scandale </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ayant suivi les J</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">eux de Stockholm</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">(voir </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/03/honnissez-cet-homme.html" target="_blank">Honnissez cet homme !</a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">).</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Le tir à la corde, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">quant à lui, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">restera bien disc</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ipline olympique</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">;</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">il faut </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">reconnaître</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">aussi </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">qu</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">il n</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">y a pas de </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">professionnels dans ce sport</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">que lui au moins</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">présente </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">donc</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">énorme</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">avantage d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">être</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">proprement confo</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">rme </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">aux idéaux de l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">amateurisme</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Le pauvre Sullivan en est quitte pour rentrer </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">bredouille aux Etats</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Unis</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">. I</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">l </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">y </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">mourra quelques semaines p</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">lus tard[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">iii]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><br />
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Étonnamment<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, tout le monde</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">n</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">est pas déçu</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">par ce verdict </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">outre</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Atlantique</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">The Washington </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Post[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">iv]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">salue même </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">favorablement le rejet du baseball, décision qu’il considère comme sage pour deux </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">raisons. D’une part, il reconnaît que le bas</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">eball n’est pratiqué qu’aux Etats</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Unis et que les autres </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pays ont cinquante ans de retard dans sa pratique, ce qui constituerait un avantage bien trop </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">important pour les Américains dans une compétition internationale. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">C</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">est </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">certes </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">oublier un peu vite </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">le Canada mais i</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">l suffit pour </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">s’en</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">convaincre de song</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">er à la démonstration de Stockholm </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">(lire <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/03/le-roi-des-sports-le-sport-des-rois.html" target="_blank">Le roi </a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/03/le-roi-des-sports-le-sport-des-rois.html" target="_blank">des sports, le sport des rois</a>)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">. D’autre part, il admet que le baseball est le sport professionnel par </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">excellence et que dès lors, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">le conflit est </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">on ne peut plus </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">flagrant entre les institutions présidant aux </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">destinées de ce </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">sport et le mouvement olympique.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Le 28 juin, dernier jour du C</span><span style="color: black;">ongrès[</span><span style="color: black;">v]</span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">Gavrilo Princip</span><span style="color: black;">, obscur étudiant Serbe de Bosnie</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">Herzégovine, fait sombrer le continent tout entier en assassinant l’Archiduc Héritier </span><span style="color: black;">d'Autriche</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">François Ferdinand à Sarajevo. </span><span style="color: black;">Le mois</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">de juillet est </span><span style="color: black;">particulièrement agité à Paris. Les principaux </span><span style="color: black;">syndicats de gauche organisent des manifestations et envisagent une grève générale, tandis que </span><span style="color: black;">Poincaré et Viviani</span><span style="color: black;">, le Président de la République et le Président du Conseil,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">ten</span><span style="color: black;">tent par tous les </span><span style="color: black;">moyens de sauver la paix, tout en préparant</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">graduellement</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">le pays à la guerre.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">S</span><span style="color: black;">i elle doit éclate</span><span style="color: black;">r, elle </span><span style="color: black;">sera nécessairement courte</span><span style="color: black;">, chacun s</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">accorde sur ce point</span><span style="color: black;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Pour la communauté </span><span style="color: black;">Américaine</span><span style="color: black;">, les choses n’ont </span><span style="color: black;">pas encore fondamentalement changé</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">:</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">La vie </span><span style="color: black;">poursuit son cours dans la quasi normalité, pour ne pas dire la plus gr</span><span style="color: black;">ande insouciance. Myron T. </span><span style="color: black;">Herrick, l’ambassadeur des Etats</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">Unis et ami personnel de Raymond Poincaré, organise à </span><span style="color: black;">l’occasion des célébrations du 4 juillet mais aussi de son départ un dîner pour 200 convives à </span><span style="color: black;">l’American Chamber of Commerce in Paris[</span><span style="color: black;">vi]</span><span style="color: black;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Du cô</span><span style="color: black;">té des </span><span style="color: black;">joueurs</span><span style="color: black;">,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">l</span><span style="color: black;">e Racing et l’American Paris Team </span><span style="color: black;">enchaînent</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">l</span><span style="color: black;">es entraînements et </span><span style="color: black;">l</span><span style="color: black;">es matchs </span><span style="color: black;">de préparation en prévision de la <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2014/10/lete-des-grands-projets.html" target="_blank">tournée en Normandie</a>[</span><span style="color: black;">vii]</span><span style="color: black;">. Ainsi le dimanche 19 juillet, les deux </span><span style="color: black;">équipes s’affrontent</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">elles sur le terrain du RCF</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">avec une co</span><span style="color: black;">mposition un peu particulière : d’un </span><span style="color: black;">côté, le baron de Wardener lance exceptionnellement pour l’équipe du Quartier Latin, de l’autre, </span><span style="color: black;">c’est le britannique Young Ahearn qui prend le monticule tandis que le jockey Tod Sloan est le </span><span style="color: black;">capitaine et que Willie Lew</span><span style="color: black;">is et Tom Kennedy complètent l’équipe habituelle. De passage à Paris, </span><span style="color: black;">Young Ahearn[</span><span style="color: black;">viii]</span><span style="color: black;">, Willie Lewis[</span><span style="color: black;">ix]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et Tom Kennedy[</span><span style="color: black;">x] </span><span style="color: black;">sont tous les trois des boxeurs professionnels </span><span style="color: black;">parmi les plus réputés du moment.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">B</span><span style="color: black;">ien loin des préoccupations des Français ou tout simplement</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">confiant</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">en l’avenir</span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">William </span><span style="color: black;">L’Engle </span><span style="color: black;">épouse</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Lucy Stelle Brown</span><span style="color: black;">, la sœur d’Archibald Brown, son co</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">équipier de </span><span style="color: black;">l’American Paris Team</span><span style="color: black;">. </span><span style="color: black;">Le couple s’est rencontré à l’Académie Julian, que Lucy a rejoint en 1913[</span><span style="color: black;">xi]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">; il est hautement </span><span style="color: black;">probable qu’elle ait égaleme</span><span style="color: black;">nt participé à la tournée normande de l’été précédent. En épousant </span><span style="color: black;">L’Engle, Lucy «</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">échappe</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">» au grand ami de la famille Brown, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, le futur </span><span style="color: black;">Président des Etats</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">Unis, qui l’a courtisée pendant un temps.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[i]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">La Société Française de Publications Sportives de Spalding édite </span><span style="color: black;">au même moment </span><span style="color: black;">un vademecum</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">compilant tous les </span><span style="color: black;">actes du Congrès de Berlin de la Fédération Internationale Athlétique Amateur, tous les règlements d’athlétisme et des </span><span style="color: black;">différents sports, ainsi que les records du monde.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Cf. «</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Jeux Olympiques</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">», in Le Journal Amusant, 30 mai 1914, p. 14</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[ii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">The Day Book, 24 juin 1914.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[iii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">C</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">était</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">là l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">une de ses der</span><span style="color: black;">nières apparitions officielles.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[iv]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Baseball At Olympus</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">», in The </span><span style="color: black;">Washington Times, 25 </span><span style="color: black;">juin</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">1914, p. 6 ; voir aussi </span></span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Baseball Barred In Olympic Games</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">», in Bryan Daily Eagle, 23 juin 1914, </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Baseball Rejected As Olympic Game</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">», in The Daily Missoulian, 24 juin 1914, p. 7, Daily Capital Journal, p. 6.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[v]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Olympic Congresses</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">», publication du Centre des Etudes Olympiques, 18 avril 2011.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[vi]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">The Washington Herald, </span><span style="color: black;">rubrique</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Society, 5 </span><span style="color: black;">juillet</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">1914, p. 11. </span><span style="color: black;">Voir</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">également</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">The </span><span style="color: black;">French Sorry To Lo</span><span style="color: black;">se </span><span style="color: black;">Herricks</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">in New</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">York Tribune, 21 </span><span style="color: black;">juin</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">1914, p. 11.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[vii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">What Americans And Others Are Doing In European Capitals</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">», in The Sun, 19 </span><span style="color: black;">juillet</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">1914, p. </span><span style="color: black;">2.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[viii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Jacob K. Woodward dit Young Ahearn (1892 </span><span style="color: black;">–</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">1979), boxeur </span><span style="color: black;">(poids moyen) britannique résidant à New York, </span><span style="color: black;">surnommé le Brooklyn Dancing Master.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[ix]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Willie Lewis (1884 </span><span style="color: black;">–</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">1949), boxeur (poids moyen) américain résidant à New York.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[x]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Tom Kennedy (1884 </span><span style="color: black;">–</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">1965), boxeur (poids </span><span style="color: black;">lourd</span><span style="color: black;">) américain.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Le 24 juillet 1914, il bat le</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Français Max Robert par KO </span><span style="color: black;">à Paris.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[xi]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">A Day’s Weddings</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">», in The New York Times, 16 </span><span style="color: black;">septembre</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">1913.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Garamond,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 9.96pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">L</span><span style="color: black;">e </span><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2014/03/paris-rendez-vous-manque.html" target="_blank">passage </a></span><span style="color: black;">d</span><span style="color: black;">e</span><span style="color: black;">s professionnels </span><span style="color: black;">de la Major League Baseball</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">à Nice</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">à Paris</span><span style="color: black;">,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">le lancem</span><span style="color: black;">ent de la <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2014/08/des-semi-pros-dans-le-championnat-de.html" target="_blank">All</a></span><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2014/08/des-semi-pros-dans-le-championnat-de.html" target="_blank">-</a></span><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2014/08/des-semi-pros-dans-le-championnat-de.html" target="_blank">Paris League</a> dans sa nouvelle </span><span style="color: black;">édition, </span><span style="color: black;">le premier match du <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2014/09/ix-de-france-ou-la-ligue-europeenne-de.html" target="_blank">IX de </a></span><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2014/09/ix-de-france-ou-la-ligue-europeenne-de.html" target="_blank">France</a></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">au Parc des Princes</span><span style="color: black;">,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">tout </span><span style="color: black;">cela ne constitue qu</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">une partie </span><span style="color: black;">d</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">u</span><span style="color: black;">n</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">plan bien plus</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">vaste et</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">ambitieux minutieusement conco</span><span style="color: black;">c</span><span style="color: black;">té</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">par </span><span style="color: black;">Albert G. Spalding et ses lieutenants. Cet été 1914 doit </span><span style="color: black;">voir la mise en </span><span style="color: black;">œuvre</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">cres</span><span style="color: black;">c</span><span style="color: black;">endo </span><span style="color: black;">de moyens </span><span style="color: black;">de promotion</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">du baseball </span><span style="color: black;">encore plus eff</span><span style="color: black;">icaces.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Tout d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">abord, a</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">près <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/07/london-calling.html" target="_blank">l’Angleterre</a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, la Tamise et Buckingham Palace</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">durant </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">l’été </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">1913</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">place à </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">l’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Espagne</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, ses </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">senoritas et ses toreadors</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">! </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Le journal </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">The Gazette du 31 mai 1914[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">i] </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">annonce que les </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">joueurs du Racing Club de France et de l’American Paris Team </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">doivent </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">effec</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">tue</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">r</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">un déplacement à </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Barcelon</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">e à l’occasion de la Pentecôte afin d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">y jouer une série de trois matchs </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">contre une équipe </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">d’Américains </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">apparemment </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">actifs dans le commerce </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">local</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de vin[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ii]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">L</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">article laisse entendre que c</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">es </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">matchs sont censés se jouer dans </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">la </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">toute </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">nouvelle</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">arène</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de tauromachie,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">la </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Plaza de toros </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Monumental de Barcelon</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">a</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, inaugurée en avril </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et pouvant accueillir </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pas moins de</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">8.000 spectateurs</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Ce déplacement est tout</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">à</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">fait plausible </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">–</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">d’autant qu’il en es</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">t question </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">à plusieurs reprises </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">depuis le </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">mois de février[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">iii]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">–</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">mais la date ne coïncide pas puisque la Pentecôte tombe le 31 mai, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">jour de </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">publication de l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">article, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">or nous avons vu </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">précédemment</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">que le Racing Club de France et </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">l’American Paris Team sont censés jouer au Parc des Princes ce même weekend. Considérons q</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ue </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">le journaliste s’est trompé et que ce déplacement est prévu pour plus tard en juin. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">C</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">est </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ailleurs </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ce </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">que </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">confirme, sans</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pour autant</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">indiquer</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de date exacte,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">The daily Gate City</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">du 14 juin 1914[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">iv]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Il est </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">bien</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">difficile de déterminer s</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">i les matchs exhibition de Londres ont donné de quelconques résultats </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">outre</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">manche</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">mais enfin il est certain que c</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">est en multipliant ce genre d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">événements</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">que le baseball </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">progressera</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">en Europe</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Sans doute</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">les artistes </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Peirce et L’Engle</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, membres de l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">American </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Paris </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Team</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">qui ont séjourné quelques temps en Espagne en 191</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">0 pour y étudier au Prado, pourro</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">nt</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ils </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">servi</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">r de guides à </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">la</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">délégation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">entourés de leurs copies </span><span style="color: black;">des </span><span style="color: black;">tableaux </span><span style="color: black;">de </span><span style="color: black;">Diego Velázquez</span><span style="color: black;">.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">La célébration</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">de la fête nationale américaine, le </span><span style="color: black;">4 juillet</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">1914</span><span style="color: black;">, doit être le prétexte pour une nouvelle </span><span style="color: black;">exhibition de baseball</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">au Parc des Princes </span><span style="color: black;">–</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">notez </span><span style="color: black;">qu</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">il s</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">agit de </span><span style="color: black;">la</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">troisième dans </span><span style="color: black;">le</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">stade</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">d</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">Auteuil</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">depuis le début de l’année</span><span style="color: black;">, sans compter </span><span style="color: black;">évidemment </span><span style="color: black;">les matchs de </span><span style="color: black;">la </span><span style="color: black;">saison </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">régulière</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">. </span><span style="color: black;">L’Ambassadeur </span><span style="color: black;">des Etats</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">Unis, </span><span style="color: black;">Myron T. Herrick</span><span style="color: black;">,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">promet d’y être présent pour y lancer la </span><span style="color: black;">première balle et des invitations doivent être adressées aux principales personnalités du mouvement </span><span style="color: black;">sporti</span><span style="color: black;">f français</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et notamment aux éminents membres du Comité Olympique Français. </span><span style="color: black;">On retrouve </span><span style="color: black;">ici</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">encore la manifestation de la vo</span><span style="color: black;">lont</span><span style="color: black;">é </span><span style="color: black;">constante </span><span style="color: black;">de </span><span style="color: black;">convaincre</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">le mouvement olympique que le </span><span style="color: black;">baseball a </span><span style="color: black;">une </span><span style="color: black;">place</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">légitime au premier rang des sports mondiaux.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Il ne fait aucun doute qu’un </span><span style="color: black;">événement de ce type </span><span style="color: black;">est de nature à </span><span style="color: black;">attirer</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">la foule.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">A la fin du mois de</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">juillet</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">le </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">réputé</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2014/03/la-tournee-mondiale-des-chicago-white.html" target="_blank">Ted Sullivan</a>, dont nous avons pu constater toute l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">efficacité </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">dans l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">organisation de la tournée mondiale des major</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">leaguers</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, embarque à bord d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">un steamer </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">transatlantique afin de venir apporter sa</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">contribution personnelle au développement du baseball en </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">France</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">A 63 ans, l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ui qui cherche depuis 1889 à s</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">impliquer</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">dans la propagation mondiale de </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">son</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">sport</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">(souvenez</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">vous de l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">épisode avec <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/01/yee-ha-buffalo-bill-la-rescousse.html" target="_blank">B</a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/01/yee-ha-buffalo-bill-la-rescousse.html" target="_blank">uffalo Bill</a>)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, tient enfin là </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">une fantastique opportunité[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">v]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">qu</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">il </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">souhaite décliner en deux volets</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Tout d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">abord, il vise au développement des </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">clubs locaux par le </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">recours</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">à des stars des colleges américains en guise de coaches.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Combien de coaches envisage</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">t</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">il </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">amener en </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">France</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et à quels clubs les destine</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">t</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">il </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">?</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Impossible de le dire, mais il est certain que </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">import de </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">véritables </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">techniciens est </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">susceptibl</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">e de</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">grandeme</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">nt accélérer la progression du niveau </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de jeu.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Ensuite</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">plus classiquement pourrions</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">nous </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">presque </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">dire,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">il entend constituer deux équipes</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">joueurs </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">professionnels</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">une pour la National </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">League </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">autre pour l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">American League, et </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">organiser des matchs exhibition à Berlin, Dublin et Par</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">is à l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">issue de la saison </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">en cours, soit </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">possiblement dès </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">septembre ou </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">octobre 1914.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Les professionnels n</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">avaient pas pu jouer </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">dans la </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">capitale</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">en début d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">année à cause des exécrables conditions météorologiques mais tout n</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">est pas </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">perdu </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et il y a encore de l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">espoir </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pour le public Parisien</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">P</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">reuve s’il en est que </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">la <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/08/la-tournee-promotionnelle-en-normandie.html" target="_blank">tournée promotionnelle</a> provinciale</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">d’août </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">1913</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">a déjà commencé à porter </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ses fruits et que la méthode employée est</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">manifestement</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">la bonne</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, l’équipe du Vésinet affronte lors </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">du weekend du 1</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">er</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">mars</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">1914</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, à Dieppe, une équipe locale devant </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pas moins de </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">3.000 spectateurs[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">vi]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Il serait intéressant de savoir si le club de Dieppe est entièrement tenu localement ou si l’une ou </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">l’autre des organisations parisiennes la soutient</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">une manière ou d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">une autre</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">. En est</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">il de même au </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">H</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">avre</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">? A priori, rien </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">en l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">état de nos recherches </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ne permet </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">d’affirmer que le </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Havre Athletic Club</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">a </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">adopté le baseball en son sein.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Mais enfin, l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’escapade </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">précédente</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ayant été un franc succès, et </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">probablement a</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ussi une bonne partie de plaisir, c’est fort logiquement que les plans pour l’été 1914 </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">incluent une nouvelle tournée </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">promotionnelle </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">dans les villes </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">balnéaires </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">normandes</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">en </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">août[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">vii]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Etretat et Dieppe, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">avec la programmation d’une nouvelle réception par le maire</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et les </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">notables de la ville</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">sont reconduites comme étapes. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Rouen, Trouville, Deauville et Dinard sont </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">évoquées[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">viii]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Inver</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">sement</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">assez curieusement</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, Le Havre et le stad</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">e de Sanvic ne sont plus sur </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">le </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">parcours</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Muhr fera encore une fois une démonstration de ses talents d’organisateur tandis que </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Harold B. <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/10/les-premiers-parrains-ford.html" target="_blank">White </a>pourvoira à la logistique en fournissant les véhicules Ford. Cette tournée est </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">censée créer des vocati</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ons locales et donner lieu à la constitution de nouveaux clubs en province.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Enfin, </span><span style="color: black;">c</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">est aussi lors de cet</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">été 1914 </span><span style="color: black;">qu</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">un</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">tout nouveau proj</span><span style="color: black;">et d</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">envergure doit voir le jour.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Le </span><span style="color: black;">Boston Evening Transcript[</span><span style="color: black;">ix]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">rapporte </span><span style="color: black;">dès</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">février 1914 que les différents acteurs du développement </span><span style="color: black;">du baseball Français </span><span style="color: black;">s’attendent </span><span style="color: black;">à recevoir un renfort de poids de la part des écoles militaires</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">:</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Quatre in</span><span style="color: black;">structeurs</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">ont </span><span style="color: black;">en effet </span><span style="color: black;">l’intention de commencer à </span><span style="color: black;">y </span><span style="color: black;">enseigner le baseball[</span><span style="color: black;">x]</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Ces hommes</span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">qui</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">ont entrepris d’étudie</span><span style="color: black;">r</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">consciencieusement les règles</span><span style="color: black;">, la terminologie</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et les subtilités du jeu</span><span style="color: black;">,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">sont </span><span style="color: black;">vraisemblablement </span><span style="color: black;">issus </span><span style="color: black;">du lycée militaire</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">de </span><span style="color: black;">Saint</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">Cyr</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">qui a adopté une </span><span style="color: black;">nouvelle approche de </span><span style="color: black;">l'instruction militaire consistant à donner aux élèves autant de cours théoriques que pr</span><span style="color: black;">atiques</span><span style="color: black;">. Mais </span><span style="color: black;">à vrai dire, ils pourraient tout aussi bien être issus </span><span style="color: black;">de </span><span style="color: black;">l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">école normale militaire de gymnastique de </span><span style="color: black;">Joinville</span><span style="color: black;">, et c</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">est là un point qui reste à clarifier. </span><span style="color: black;">Peut</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">être </span><span style="color: black;">les ob</span><span style="color: black;">servateurs </span><span style="color: black;">de l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">État</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">major</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">F</span><span style="color: black;">rançais </span><span style="color: black;">de la guerre hispano</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">américaine </span><span style="color: black;">de 1898 </span><span style="color: black;">ont</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">ils encore en mémoire l</span><span style="color: black;">es prouesses des hommes de </span><span style="color: black;">The</span><span style="color: black;">o</span><span style="color: black;">dore Roo</span><span style="color: black;">sevelt</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">lors de la <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/02/les-champs-de-baseball-de-lamerique.html" target="_blank">prise des collines de San Juan</a></span><span style="color: black;">, en partie attribué</span><span style="color: black;">es à</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">la pratique du </span><span style="color: black;">baseball par le</span><span style="color: black;">s</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">jeunes</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Américains</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">?</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Quoi qu</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">il en soit, u</span><span style="color: black;">n tel projet assurera</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">évidemment une </span><span style="color: black;">propagation </span><span style="color: black;">bien </span><span style="color: black;">plus rapide de la discipline, en plus de fournir </span><span style="color: black;">rapidement </span><span style="color: black;">de nouvelles équipe</span><span style="color: black;">s </span><span style="color: black;">structurées </span><span style="color: black;">au championnat.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Non, on le voit bien, à moins d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">une catastrophe, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">absolument </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">rien ne s</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">aurait</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">entraver le </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">dév</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">eloppement du baseball en ce si bel été </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">1914</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><i>C</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>et article</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>est spécialement dédié</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>à Gaspard Fessy</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>, ancien joueur de l</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>’</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>Equipe de </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>France</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>de baseball,</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>ancien </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>Normand</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>(notamment</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>!</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>)</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>,</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>grand A</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>moureux de Barcelone.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[i]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">The Gazette Times, 31 may 1914, op. cit.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[ii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Voir au sujet du déve</span><span style="color: black;">loppement du baseball espagnol </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Baseball Climbs In Sunny Spain</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">in The Washington Times, </span><span style="color: black;">18 septembre 1913.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[iii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Baseball</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Gaining Ground In France</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">, in The Day, 28 février 1914.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[iv]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Baseball </span><span style="color: black;">Bug </span><span style="color: black;">Stings </span><span style="color: black;">France</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">, in The daily Gate City, </span><span style="color: black;">14 juin 1914, p. 15.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[v]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Ted Sullivan To Promote Baseball In Foreign Lands</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">, in </span><span style="color: black;">Honolulu star</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">bulletin</span><span style="color: black;">,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">24 juillet 1914</span><span style="color: black;">,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">p</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">9</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[vi]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">France Strong For Baseball</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">», in The Evening News, 16 mars 1914.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[viii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Baseball </span><span style="color: black;">Bug </span><span style="color: black;">Stings </span><span style="color: black;">France</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">op. cit.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[ix]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Baseball in France</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">, in Boston Evening Transcript, op. cit.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">; </span><span style="color: black;">Voir</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">aussi</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">: </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Baseball li</span><span style="color: black;">kely to gain foo</span><span style="color: black;">thold among the </span><span style="color: black;">youth of France</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">, in </span><span style="color: black;">The evening herald., 28 </span><span style="color: black;">février</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">1914</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">A quelques heures du début du <a href="http://ffbsc.org/edit.asp?typ=1&id=3544" target="_blank">France International Baseball Tournament</a> (aussi appelé Yoshida </span><span style="color: black;">Challenge</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">en hommage à «</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Monsieur</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">) qui verra s’affronter à <a href="http://www.templiers-senart.com/" target="_blank">Sénart </a></span><span style="color: black;">du 4 au 9 septembre 2014 </span><span style="color: black;">une </span><span style="color: black;">équipe venue tout droit du Pays du Soleil Levant ainsi que les équipes nationales de Belgique, des </span><span style="color: black;">Pays</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">Bas et de France, </span><span style="color: black;">et à une semaine du lancement du championnat d’Europe</span><span style="color: black;">, auquel </span><span style="color: black;">participeront les Bleu</span><span style="color: black;">s menés pour la première fois par </span><span style="color: black;">Eric Gagné </span><span style="color: black;">,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">il semble </span><span style="color: black;">une fois de plus que </span><span style="color: black;">l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">actualité suive </span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">d’une certaine manière en parallèle </span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">l’histoire du baseball</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">hexagonal</span><span style="color: black;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Au printemps 1914, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">les matchs d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">es</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">championnat</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">s</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">régulier</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">s</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">évoqués dans notre précédent <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2014/08/des-semi-pros-dans-le-championnat-de.html">article </a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ne </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">sont </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pas les seuls qui se disput</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ent</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">dans la capitale. Ainsi peut</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">on lire dans l’édition du </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">vendredi </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">29 </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">mai </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">du </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">journal Le Temps[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">i]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">que plusie</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">urs </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">événements</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">sont organisés pour l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">e weekend</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de Pentecôte :</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">«</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>Demain, samedi et dimanche, au vélodrome du Parc des Prince</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>s, le Klegan’s Base</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>-</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>Ball </i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>Club </i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>jouera contre </i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>le team du Quartier</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>-</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>Latin, puis contre l’équipe de France. Lundi, à Colombes, il rencontrera l’équipe du </i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>Racing</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>-</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>Club de France</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">».</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Tout </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">d’abord, l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">a typographie dans les journaux de l’époque n’étant pas toujours parfaite, il faut bien </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">sûr </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">reconnaître derrière le Klegan’s </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Base</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Ball C</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">lub, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">nul autre que </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/07/la-ligue-europeenne-de-baseball-acte-i.html">Richard B. Klegin</a>, dont les projets </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">un peu fous paraissent avoir</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">finalement vu le jour</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, ou </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">à tout le moins celui</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ci</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Klegin</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, qui</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">s’est </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">autoproclamé Président de la </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>International Baseball League of Europe</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">annoncée par la presse[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ii]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">comme </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">une conséquence directe de la tournée en Europe des White Sox et des Giants, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">prétend disposer </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">d’équipes dans </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pas</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">moins de </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">onze villes européennes dont </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Londres, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Liver</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pool, Berlin, Saint</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-Pé</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">tersbourg, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Paris</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, Nice et Monaco</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, regroupées dans un championnat dont l’opening day est </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">célébré le 28 mars 1914 à Ranelagh dans le comté de Dublin[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">iii]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">La petite phrase anodine prononc</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ée </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">par Spalding en juillet de l’année </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">1913</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">au sujet de l’avènement inéluctable des compétitions </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">internationales </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">résonne tout à coup </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">avec les échos d’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">une <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/09/les-premiers-parrains-spalding.html">prophétie</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Le fait est que si un tel projet de ligue européenne de baseball devait aboutir, c’est bien</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Paris et </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Londres qui figureraient logiquement au premier rang. <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2014/03/nice-hit.html">Nice </a>a connu par deux fois le passage des </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">professionnels, c’est aussi un lieu où les <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/11/aye-aye-captain.html">marins </a>des navires américains qui y font escale s’adonnent régulièrement </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">au baseball, et c’est également un lieu de villé</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">giature pour de nombreux Américains</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">; en bref, c’est </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">une ville incontournable. Monte Carlo présente aussi l’avantage d’attirer une population fortunée en </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">quête de divertissements. Alors</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, oui, le choix de ces villes est pertinent et ne surprend guère </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">person</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ne. Mais c</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">omment </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Klegin </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pourrait</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">il disposer d’une équipe à Paris sans que celle</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ci ne </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">prenne part au championnat</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">? L’équipe du Quartier</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Latin </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">dont il est question </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">dans l’article </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">est</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">elle </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">en fait </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">l’<a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/05/lamerican-paris-team.html">American Paris Team</a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ou une autre équipe montée de toutes p</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ièces p</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">armi les étudiants </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">américains ? S’il s’agit de l’American Paris Team et sachant que ses membres </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">bénéficient des </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">largesses du mystéri</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">eux «</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">groupe d’hommes d’affaires</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">», quelle sorte de relations Klegin entretient</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">il </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">avec Spalding</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">?</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">S</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">i, au contraire, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">il s’agit d’une autre équipe, pourquoi ne participe</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">t</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">elle pas au </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">championnat de Paris</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">?</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">A bien y réfléchir, la probabilité pour que l’équipe du Quartier</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Latin ne soit </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pas l’American Paris Team est nulle ou presque. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Inutile </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">donc </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de tourner autour du pot trop </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">longtemps, il </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">paraît </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">évident que</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Klegin n’a pas plusieurs équipes en Europe</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et qu’elles ne se </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">rencontrent </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">certainement </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pas dans un championnat au sens classique du terme </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">; tout au plus peut</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">il </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">compter sur des équipes locales p</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">our affronter celle qu’il emmène en tournée.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Mais</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">justement, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’où vient son </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">équipe</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">? </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">A en croire un article publié </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">quelques années plus tard </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">en </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">1917 dans le The Hawaiian Gazette[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">iv]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et dont on aurait souhaité qu’il soit plus détaillé</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, Klegin aurait </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">emporté </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">dans une longue tournée européenne passant par l’Irlande, l’Angleterre, la France, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">l’Allemagne, la Suède et la Russie, un total de 35 joueurs.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Ce chiffre est assez peu croyable dans la </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">mesure où, lors de leur tournée, les équipes des Giants et des White So</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">x et tous leurs </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">accompagnateurs réunis ne représentaient en tout que 65 personnes.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Avec une troupe si </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">nombreuse, c</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">omment Klegin aurait</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">il pu </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">envisager de </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">dégager des bénéfices ou tout simplement </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">couvrir ses frais alors même que la presse n’a apparemment</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pas </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ou si peu </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">parlé de </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">sa</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">tournée</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">?</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Le </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">trajet emprunté</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">n’est</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">certes pas </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">à la hauteur du</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">tour du monde effectué par les professionnels en </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">1913</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">14 mais transporter autant de monde jusqu’à </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Saint</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Pétersbourg</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">n’est pas une mince affaire</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">! </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Faute de réponse, nou</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">s devrons imaginer que l’équipe comptait </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">probablement </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">tout au plus une </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">quinzaine de joueurs et que les 20 autres personnes se sont contentées de les accompagner et ont </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">payé leur voyage.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">De quel niveau étaient les joueurs ? D’où étaient</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ils originaires</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">? Em</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">anaient</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ils </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">tous du même club</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">? En l’état de nos recherches, nous n’avons </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">malheureusement </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">aucune réponse à </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">fournir.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Autre grande </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">interrogation née de la lecture de cette coupure de presse</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">: </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Mais q</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">uelle est</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">donc cette </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">E</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">quipe de France qui joue au Parc des Princes ? Est</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">elle </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">bien </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">constituée par l’<a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/01/lusfsa-premiere-structure-federale.html">Union des Sociétés </a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/01/lusfsa-premiere-structure-federale.html">Française de Sports Athlétiques</a>, autrement dit par le <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/04/muhr-et-le-comite-de-paris.html">Comité de Paris</a> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">? </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Etant donné que l’équipe de </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Klegin affronte également le RCF, on imagine très difficilement comment Muhr, qui est le </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">secrétaire général de ce club </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">tout en étant</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">l’un des éminents dirigeants de l’U.S.F.S.A., ne </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">serait</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pas </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">directement impliqué</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et n’aurait </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pas validé toute l’opération.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Dans ce cas, l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">es joueurs portent</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ils sur </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">la poitrine les anneaux rouge et bleu de l’U</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">S</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">F</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">S</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">A</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, le coq gaulois comme le font depuis peu les </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">hommes du XV de France, ou bien la combinaison des deux[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">v] </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">? Et surtout, l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’Equipe est</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">el</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">le </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">composée des meilleurs éléments </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de la région </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">p</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">arisienne, c’est</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">à</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">dire notamm</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ent </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">voire </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">principalement </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">d’Américains, ou au contraire uniquement de Français</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">? </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">L’annonce de la rencontre </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">faite dans le journal Le Matin fournit un </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">très </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">maigre indice</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">: «</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>3 heur</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>es, Parc des Princes</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>: match </i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>d’exhibition entre deux équipes franco</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>-</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>américaines</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">»[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">vi]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Difficile d’en tirer une conclusion. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Allan </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Muhr, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">l’Américain assimilé dé</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">jà capé en Equipe de France de r</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ugby</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et de tennis</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, fait</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">il partie</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de cette </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">équipe</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">? </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Auquel cas, il p</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ourrait être considéré comme l’un des rares athlètes </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">si ce n’est le seul</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">! </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">–</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">à </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">avoir été sélectionné dans l’équipe nationale pour</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">trois disciplines différentes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Casquette d'international de rugby en soie et velours avec
galon doré, broderies à la main. Très largement inspirée de ceux des collégiens
anglais, elle arbore les deux anneaux entrelacés emblèmes de l'Union des Sociétés
Françaises de Sports Athlétiques.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Reproduction avec l’aimable autorisation de Frédéric
Humbert (<a href="http://www.rugby-pioneers.com/" target="_blank">www.rugby-pioneers.com</a>)</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Dernière </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">question relative à cet événement</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">:</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Quelle est l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’affluence des spectateurs</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">à Colomb</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">es et à </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Auteuil </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">?</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">D’après Klegin </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">mais cette information est</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">elle fiable</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">? </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">plus de 5.000 personnes ont </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">assisté au match</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">précédemment</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">joué par son équipe à Liverpool[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">vii]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">. Sachant que le Parc des Princes a </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">accueilli respectivement 500 et 3.000 spectateurs po</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ur les premiers matchs à domicile des équipes </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de France de football (12 février 1905, face à la Suisse) et de rugby (1</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">er</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">janvier 1906, face aux All </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Blacks), combien de places sont</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">elles occupées</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">sur les 10.000 disponibles depuis les tout récents </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">travaux d’aménagement ?</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Ces matchs ont</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ils eu à souffrir des conséquences néfastes de l’annulation </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">des exhibitions des Giants et d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">es White Sox</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">à cause des intempéries ? </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Quoi qu’il en soit, l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">a </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">couverture médiatique </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">en France </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de cet événement </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">est très largement restreinte</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et ses effets sur le </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">développement du baseball </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">vraisemblablement extrêmement limités</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">. Dans les jours qui suivent, la press</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">e </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">généraliste est toute accaparée par les bouleversements sur la scène politique</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">: La onzième </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">législature débute le 1</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">er</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">juin</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et dès le lendemain, la coalition parlementaire conduite </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">par</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Jaurès</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">précipite la fin du gouvernement de Gaston Doumergue. Dans les </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">colonnes consacrées </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">au sport, le football occupe une part prédominante</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">: Le 31 mai en effet, l’équipe de Hongrie sur ses </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">terres inflige une humiliante défa</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ite (5</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">–</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">1) à l’équipe de France</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">…</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Il </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">est</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">par conséquent </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">fort à craindre qu’il sera bien</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">difficile d’obte</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">nir </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">davantage</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de détails sur cet </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">événement mais quoi</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">qu’il en soit, c’est selon toute vraisemblance </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">la première apparition </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">l’Equipe de</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">France</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de baseball</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">la première référence à </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">celle</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ci</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">que l’on puisse trouver dans </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">les </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">media</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Empressez</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">vous donc d’o</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ublier</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">la théorie officielle fédérale selon laquelle l’Equipe de </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">France n’aurait </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">vu le jour et </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">joué ses premiers matchs qu’après la fondation de la Fédération </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Française de Baseball à la fin de l’année 1924</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">! Les fédérations sportives modernes, telles la F</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">F</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">F</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ou la F</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">F</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">R</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, font toutes remonter l’historique de leurs équipes nationales à la période couverte par </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">l’U</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">S</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">F</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">S</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">A.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, c’est</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">à</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">dire antérieurement à leur propre apparition.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Pourquoi la F</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">F</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">B</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">S</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">. devrait</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">elle</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">occulter ce</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">t important</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pan de son histoire</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">se priver de</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">célébrer</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">cette année les 100 ans</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">notre </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">équipe nationale de baseball, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">notre </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">«</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">IX de France</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">»</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">PS</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">: </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">J</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">e </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">suis d’avis</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">que l’Equipe de France de baseball </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">aurait dû</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">recevoir un surnom</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">depuis fort </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">longtemps</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">. J’ai toujours beaucoup aimé </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">celui</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de «</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">XV de France</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">» donné aux Bleus rugbymen et </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">puisque le mot «</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">nine</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">» (neuf en anglais) est souvent utilisé </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pour désigner une équipe de</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">baseball, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">n’en déplaise à certains, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">le «</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">IX de France</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">» me semble tout indiqué.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Je souhaite à ses membres et à </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">son en</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">cadrement une </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">très </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">fructueuse campagne 2014. Allez les Bleus !</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[ii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Baseball Today: London </span><span style="color: black;">vs. Paris, Nice vs. Monte Carlo </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">, in Pittsburgh Press, 13 </span><span style="color: black;">avril</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">1914.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[iii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Game Booming In Europe</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">», in The Washington Herald, 20 juin 1914, p. </span><span style="color: black;">13. </span><span style="color: black;">Voir</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">également</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Americans Defeat </span><span style="color: black;">Foreign Ball Team</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">, in The Washington Herald, 29 mars 1914, sporting section.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[iv]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Sport Promoter Through Visitor</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">», in The Hawaiian Gazette, </span><span style="color: black;">7 </span><span style="color: black;">ao</span><span style="color: black;">ût</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">1917, p. 8.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[v]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Le coq </span><span style="color: black;">est </span><span style="color: black;">appar</span><span style="color: black;">u</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">comme emblème </span><span style="color: black;">sur l’écusson du Comité français interfédéral </span><span style="color: black;">(</span><span style="color: black;">organisat</span><span style="color: black;">eur</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">des rencontres </span><span style="color: black;">internationales de football</span><span style="color: black;">)</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">en 1909</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">1910</span><span style="color: black;">. Il </span><span style="color: black;">a </span><span style="color: black;">ensuite </span><span style="color: black;">gagné </span><span style="color: black;">les autres sports</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">contrôlés par </span><span style="color: black;">l’USFSA</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">en 1913</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">14</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[vi]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">La v</span><span style="color: black;">ie </span><span style="color: black;">s</span><span style="color: black;">portive</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">», in Le Matin, 31 mai 1914, p. </span><span style="color: black;">5.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Sous l’effet de la couverture médiatique de la tournée</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">des professionnels en France</span><span style="color: black;">, le baseball </span><span style="color: black;">gagne non seulement en notoriété mais également en crédibilité</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">au</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">cours du</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">printemps 1914</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Spalding, le stratège, et ses lieutenants sont confiants et entendent mener </span><span style="color: black;">méthodiquement </span><span style="color: black;">leurs </span><span style="color: black;">projets à bien. Battre le fer tant qu’il est chaud, telle est, semble</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">t</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">il, la devise qui dicte leurs actes.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Pour la seconde année, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">William H. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/04/burgess-et-lassociation-de-base-ball-du.html">Burgess </a>continu</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">e d’animer le championnat des plus jeunes. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Tout </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">juste débarqué du paquebot La Touraine à New York en mars, Burgess déclare aux journalistes que </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">«</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>le baseball a pris avec beaucoup d’enthousiasme en France et </i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">[il]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>sera bientôt un sport populaire</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">», et que «</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>pour le </i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>moment, les Français n’ont pas d’équipe professionnelle mais simplement des organisations d’amateurs principalement </i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>sous la supervision du Racing Club de France</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">»[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">i]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Il </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">avoue </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">que le passage des Giants et des White Sox a </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">certes </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">fait </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">nombre d’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">émules m</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ais que le développement n’est </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">toutefois pas aussi rapide qu’il l’aurait</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">souhait</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">é</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, et notamment au regard de ce qui s’est produit dans d’autres pays. Parmi les difficultés </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">rencontrées, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Burgess</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pointe du doigt</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">le système scolaire avec ses horaires extrêmeme</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">nt </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">contraignants («</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>L’élève moyen est à son pupitre à 8h du matin et n’est libéré que vers 18h, alors que dans les </i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>écoles publiques des Etats</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>-</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>Unis les jeunes garçons quittent la classe vers 14 ou 15h</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">»), </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">une certaine rigidité </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">sociale («</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>Lorsque des jeunes </i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>enfants Français veulent jouer au baseball, ils doivent donner à leurs parents les noms </i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>des enfants avec lesquels ils entendent jouer. Si certains ne sont pas du même rang social, les parents refusent de les </i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>laisser jouer</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">»)[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ii]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et en tout premier lieu </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">il insiste sur le manque cruel de </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">terrains </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">praticables.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Le son de cloche est </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">assez</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">différent pour ce qui concerne le</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">championnat de</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">s adultes. Selon le </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Pittsburgh Press </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">–</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et il s’en amuse </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">–</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">les choses évoluent tellement rapidement de ce côté</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ci</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">l’Atlan</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">tique[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">iii]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">que John McGraw aura certainement un sérieux adversaire la prochaine fois qu’il </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">passera par la France avec son équipe. Le championnat officiel concocté par le Comité de Paris </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">débute fort tard car l’opening day n’a lieu que le samedi 13 juin. Il n’in</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">tègre pas les lycées, réunis </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">dans un championnat scolaire à part, et ne laisse plus place qu’à cinq équipes de clubs</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">véritablement </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">structurés : l’<a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/05/lamerican-paris-team.html">American Paris Team</a>, exclusivement composée d’étudiants artistes américains parmi </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">lesquels, outre ceux précéde</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">mment mentionnés, Billy Long, un athlète de Yale, G. H. Reid, de </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Virginie, et Henry Riker, chanteur d’opéra et seul membre de l’équipe à ne pas être peintre</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">; le </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/07/le-racing-club-de-france.html">Racing Club de France</a>, qui compte dans son neuf de début de saison cinq français et quatre </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">amé</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ricains, à savoir Allan Muhr, Frederick Bate, le baron Rudolph T. de Wardener Jr. et son jeune </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">frère Edouard[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">iv]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">; le Stade Français, qui n’aligne que des Français</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">; et le <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/09/les-premiers-parrains-spalding.html">Spalding AC</a>, dont l’équipe </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">est franco</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">américaine. La cinquième équipe est celle organis</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ée par la <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/10/les-premiers-parrains-ford.html">Ford Motor Company</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Doter </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">rapidement </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">le baseball français d’infrastructures dédiées devient donc impérat</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">if pour, d’une </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">part faciliter l’organisation de ces championnats</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, et d’autre part assurer à long terme l’enracinement. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Véritable clef de voût</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">e sur laquelle reposent tous les plans, le Racing Club de France, qui dispose </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pourtant déjà d’un terrain de baseball, envisage d’en aménager pas moins de trois supplémentaires </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">avant la fin de l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">a saison</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">1914[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">v]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">! Si ce chiffre </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">paraît</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">très conséquent, il convi</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ent de préciser que le </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">RCF, qui a racheté au journal Le Matin le stade de Colombes</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">en 1910, dispose de près d’une </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">cinquantaine d’hectares</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">aux portes de Paris</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, ce qui, après l’aménagement d’une douzaine de terrains </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de football, de rugby ou de hockey et d’un</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">e piste d’athlétisme, lui laisse encore largement de quoi y </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">caser autant de diamants.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Dans le même temps, un «</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">groupe d’hommes d’affaire</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">» américains </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">réserve le Parc des Princes[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">vi]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pour y accueillir les matchs </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">à domicile </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de l’American Paris Team.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Ce même gr</span><span style="color: black;">oupe</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">annonce</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">par ailleurs la constitution d’</span><span style="color: black;">un fonds destiné à aider les jeunes artistes </span><span style="color: black;">dans le besoin[</span><span style="color: black;">vii]</span><span style="color: black;">. En lieu et place de </span><span style="color: black;">ce mystérieux </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">groupe d’hommes d’affaire</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">», il faut </span><span style="color: black;">probablement entendre Spalding, Ford et peut-être <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/11/les-premiers-parrains-dubonnet-1913.html">Dubonnet</a>. Là encore </span><span style="color: black;">cette annonce bén</span><span style="color: black;">igne en </span><span style="color: black;">apparence</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">soulève </span><span style="color: black;">plusieurs </span><span style="color: black;">vraies </span><span style="color: black;">questions</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">: S’agit</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">il de rétribuer les joueurs </span><span style="color: black;">de l’American Paris </span><span style="color: black;">Team </span><span style="color: black;">d’une manière un peu déguisée, ce qui ferait assurément d</span><span style="color: black;">’eux des semi</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">professionnels</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et </span><span style="color: black;">même les premiers semi</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">professionnels d’Europe dans </span><span style="color: black;">cette discipline </span><span style="color: black;">? C</span><span style="color: black;">es joueurs ont</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">ils </span><span style="color: black;">bénéficié d’un traitement équivalent</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">dès 1913 ? Dans l’affirmative, notre perspective évoluerait </span><span style="color: black;">quelque peu</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">: nous pourrions </span><span style="color: black;">en effet </span><span style="color: black;">être amenés à considérer que cette équipe a été délibérément </span><span style="color: black;">constituée pour palli</span><span style="color: black;">er aux coûts exorbitant de déplacement d’une équipe de </span><span style="color: black;">véritables</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">professionnels. Cette hypothèse nous paraît tout</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">à</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">fait plausible dans le sens où, de cette manière et </span><span style="color: black;">à moindre </span><span style="color: black;">coût</span><span style="color: black;">, Spalding pourrait ainsi disposer d’une équipe sur place en permanence </span><span style="color: black;">et l’utiliser </span><span style="color: black;">pour toutes sortes de démonstration</span><span style="color: black;">s sur le vieux continent</span><span style="color: black;">. Ce faisant, il s’inscrirait cependant en </span><span style="color: black;">faux contre l’un des principes et chevaux de bataille de l’<a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/01/lusfsa-premiere-structure-federale.html">U.S.F.S.A.</a>, l’amateurisme, auquel seuls la </span><span style="color: black;">v</span><span style="color: black;">élocipédie et le turf échappent alors</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[i]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">France Strong For Baseball », in The Evening News, op. cit. ; «</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Baseball In France », in Boston Daily Globe, 16 mars </span><span style="color: black;">1914, p. 7 ; The Evening World, 16 mars 1914, p. 1</span><span style="color: black;">2.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[ii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Baseball Gaining Ground In France », in The Day, 28 février 1914.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[iii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">France Now Has A Ball League</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">; Game Popular</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">», in The Pittsburgh Press, op. cit.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[iv]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Edouard (ou Edward) de Wardener, né en 1888, étudie en Angleterre, sera Major dans l’U.S. Army</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">durant la première </span><span style="color: black;">guerre mondiale.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[v]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Baseball Gaining Ground In France</span> »,<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">op. cit</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[vi]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Voir «</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">France Now Has A Ball League</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">; Game Popular</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">», i</span><span style="color: black;">n The Pittsburgh Press, op. cit.,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">où l’on apprend que le </span><span style="color: black;">terrain aménagé ferait le bonheur de n’importe quelle équipe professionnelle.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Alan Seeger</span><span style="color: black;">, jeune </span><span style="color: black;">A</span><span style="color: black;">méricain</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">né </span><span style="color: black;">le 22 juin</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">1888</span><span style="color: black;">,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">sort </span><span style="color: black;">diplômé de </span><span style="color: black;">l’université de </span><span style="color: black;">Harvard</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">en 1910</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Lui</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">qui</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">contrib</span><span style="color: black;">u</span><span style="color: black;">a</span><span style="color: black;">i</span><span style="color: black;">t</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">déjà </span><span style="color: black;">en tant qu</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">auteur</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">pour le </span><span style="color: black;"><i>Harvard Monthly</i></span><span style="color: black;">,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">consacre</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">les deux </span><span style="color: black;">an</span><span style="color: black;">nées qui </span><span style="color: black;">suivent la fin de ses études</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">à </span><span style="color: black;">écrire de </span><span style="color: black;">la poésie et à mener une vie de Bohème dans </span><span style="color: black;">Greenwich </span><span style="color: black;">Village</span><span style="color: black;">. Il décide de</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">rejoindre </span><span style="color: black;">Paris</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">dès</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">1912</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et i</span><span style="color: black;">l </span><span style="color: black;">n</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">est </span><span style="color: black;">pas exclu</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">qu</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">il y croise son camarad</span><span style="color: black;">e de </span><span style="color: black;">promotion </span><span style="color: black;">John Reed</span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">cet </span><span style="color: black;">éphémère </span><span style="color: black;">membre de l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/05/lamerican-paris-team.html"><span style="color: black;">A</span><span style="color: black;">merican Paris Team</span></a><span style="color: black;">. </span><span style="color: black;">T</span><span style="color: black;">rès </span><span style="color: black;">vite, il tombe </span><span style="color: black;">amoureux </span><span style="color: black;">de la France</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et</span><span style="color: black;">, dans le but d</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">y demeurer,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">entreprend </span><span style="color: black;">de </span><span style="color: black;">soumettre</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">ses </span><span style="color: black;">œuvre</span><span style="color: black;">s</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">poétiques et des textes</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">de sa composition</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">à</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">de </span><span style="color: black;">nombreuses</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">revues.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Peu de temps après le <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2014/03/paris-rendez-vous-manque.html">passage des Giants et des White Sox</a></span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">fortement inspiré, </span><span style="color: black;">Seeger </span><span style="color: black;">adresse </span><span style="color: black;">depuis son domicile dans le Quartier Latin </span><span style="color: black;">une lettr</span><span style="color: black;">e</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">au rédacteur en chef d</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">une nouvelle</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">revue</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">mensuelle</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">pour lui faire part de son désir de publier «</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><i>quelque chose en français et qui pût être utile aux </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>Français</i></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">» </span><span style="color: black;">au sujet de</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">ces exhibitions</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et de ce sport</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Cette </span><span style="color: black;">revue littéraire et artistique</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">à f</span><span style="color: black;">aible tirage </span><span style="color: black;">parue sous le titre </span><span style="color: black;"><i>Les soirées de Paris</i></span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">récemment</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">fondé</span><span style="color: black;">e</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">comme une sorte de laboratoire </span><span style="color: black;">par un </span><span style="color: black;">certain </span><span style="color: black;">Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary de Wąż</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">Kostrowicki</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et quatre d</span><span style="color: black;">e ses proches[</span><span style="color: black;">i]</span><span style="color: black;">,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">s</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">occup</span><span style="color: black;">e</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">principalement de littérature </span><span style="color: black;">moderne</span><span style="color: black;">. </span><span style="color: black;">On peut lire dans</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">s</span><span style="color: black;">es pages des </span><span style="color: black;">œuvres</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">tout</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">à</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">fait </span><span style="color: black;">novatrices, </span><span style="color: black;">radi</span><span style="color: black;">cales</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et </span><span style="color: black;">même </span><span style="color: black;">surréalistes d</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">écrivains tels que </span><span style="color: black;">Blaise Cendrars</span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">André </span><span style="color: black;">Salmon ou </span><span style="color: black;">Max Jacob</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Son deuxième sujet de prédilection </span><span style="color: black;">est</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">art </span><span style="color: black;">sous toutes ses formes mais</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">essentiellement </span><span style="color: black;">la</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">peinture nouvelle</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">:</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">outre les </span><span style="color: black;">critiques</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">d</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">oeuvres de toutes sortes y compris cinématographiques[</span><span style="color: black;">ii]</span><span style="color: black;">, on y trouve de</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">nombreuses </span><span style="color: black;">illustrations et </span><span style="color: black;">reproductions </span><span style="color: black;">de tableaux</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">signées</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">de M</span><span style="color: black;">a</span><span style="color: black;">rie </span><span style="color: black;">Laurencin, de Matisse, </span><span style="color: black;">du douanier Rousseau, ou </span><span style="color: black;">bien </span><span style="color: black;">encore </span><span style="color: black;">des </span><span style="color: black;">cubistes</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Fernand Léger </span><span style="color: black;">et</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Picasso</span><span style="color: black;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Si le nom du fondateur</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de cette revue</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">vous </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">évoque</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">vaguement </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">quelque chose, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">vous ne pouvez </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">en </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">aucun cas </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ignorer son</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pseudonyme</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">:</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Guillaume Apollinaire</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">C</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">est dans </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>Les soirées de Paris</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">qu</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Apollinaire</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, âgé d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">une trentaine d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">années,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">publie q</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">uelques</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">uns de ses</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">poèmes considérés </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">aujourd’hui comme majeurs</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">:</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">«</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Le Pont Mirabeau</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">»</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">« Zone »</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">« Clotilde », « Marie</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Sibylle »</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, « </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Rosemonde », « Annie », « Le voyageur », </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">« Cors de chasse »</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, « Marie »</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">« Vendémiaire »</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Ce</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">rtain</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">s </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">entre eux</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">sont</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">très tôt </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">repris </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">dans le </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">fameux </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">recueil </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>Alcools</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">A</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">u mois de mai</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">1914</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Alan </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Seeger </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">fait porter</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">à Apollinaire</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">un article </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de cinq pages</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">rédigé dans un </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">français parfois approximatif et </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">intitulé </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>Le</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>baseball aux Etats</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>-</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>Unis</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, accompagné d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">u</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">n</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">petit</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">courrier</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><i>Cher Apoll</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>inaire,</i></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><i>Voici un article de sujet bien moderne qui doit vous plaire pour les Soirées. Je l’ai mis en mauvais </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>français, comme exercice. Vous pourriez, si vous l’acceptez, écrire une petite int</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>roduction, comme on </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>fait ici en France dans les revues et journaux, expliquan</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>t en quelques lignes comment le</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>s</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>deux équipes </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>champions de l’Amérique sont passées par Paris, comment le mauvais temps a </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>empêché</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>le jeu, et disant </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>ensuite que M. </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>Alan</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>Seeger, poèt</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>e américain, communique le suivant, etc., etc.</i></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><i>Vous trouverez le français exécrable surtout à partir de la troisième page où j’ai travaillé seul, mais </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>vous comprendrez mieux mon mauvais français que mon bon anglais. J’espère que vous pourrez vous </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>servir de</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>ceci.</i></span></span></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Alan Seeger, </span></i><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">17, rue du Sommerard</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Pour</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">qu</span><span style="color: black;">ell</span><span style="color: black;">e</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">raison </span><span style="color: black;">Apollinaire accepterait</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">il d</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">insérer</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">un article sur le baseball dans </span><span style="color: black;">sa</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">revue</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">?</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">S</span><span style="color: black;">ans </span><span style="color: black;">doute parce que, se positionnant à la pointe d</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">un mouvement d</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">avant</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">garde, les membres du comité </span><span style="color: black;">de rédaction </span><span style="color: black;">et lui</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">même </span><span style="color: black;">estiment qu</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">il s</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">agit d</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">un sport </span><span style="color: black;">totalement </span><span style="color: black;">nouveau</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">venu d</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">un pays </span><span style="color: black;">affranchi des contraintes de l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">ancien monde</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et q</span><span style="color: black;">u</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">à ce titre il </span><span style="color: black;">est susceptible de correspondre </span><span style="color: black;">à</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">homme moderne. Très i</span><span style="color: black;">ntéressé par le sujet, </span><span style="color: black;">Apollinaire f</span><span style="color: black;">a</span><span style="color: black;">it effectivement paraître </span><span style="color: black;">cet </span><span style="color: black;">article </span><span style="color: black;">en </span><span style="color: black;">août 1914[</span><span style="color: black;">iii]</span> <span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">dans </span><span style="color: black;">ce qui s’avèrera être </span><span style="color: black;">l’ultime</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">numéro des </span><span style="color: black;"><i>Soirées de Paris</i></span><span style="color: black;">. </span><span style="color: black;">Seeger </span><span style="color: black;">y </span><span style="color: black;">exhorte </span><span style="color: black;">littéralement </span><span style="color: black;">les Français à s’adonner à ce jeu, </span><span style="color: black;">ce qui </span><span style="color: black;">fera</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">d</span><span style="color: black;">ire à</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Apollinaire </span><span style="color: black;">quelques années plus </span><span style="color: black;">tard</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">dans </span><span style="color: black;">le</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><i>Mercure de </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>France</i></span> [<span style="color: black;">iv]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><i>Il vaudrait la peine qu’on republiât en plaquette l’article de Seeger et qu’on le répandît à profusion, car </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>personne n’a mieux montré les délices et l’utilité de ce jeu auquel les journaux américains consacrent</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>chaque </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>jour plusieurs colonnes.</i></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">L</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">article de Seeger ne sera </span><span style="color: black;">malheureusement </span><span style="color: black;">jamais republié en plaquette </span><span style="color: black;">comme le souhaitait </span><span style="color: black;">Apollinaire et Dieu seul sait qui a pu lire, en </span><span style="color: black;">ce lourd mois d</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">août 1914, la version originale que </span><span style="color: black;">vous trouverez ci</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">dessous reproduite</span><span style="color: black;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[i]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">S</span><span style="color: black;">avoir André Billy, René Daliz</span><span style="color: black;">e, André Salmon et André Tudesq.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[ii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Voir </span><span style="color: black;">la</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Chronique cinématographique</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">de Maurice Raynal, </span><span style="color: black;">qui compte parmi</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">les premières </span><span style="color: black;">en </span><span style="color: black;">France</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">à </span><span style="color: black;">traiter du septième art.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">[iii]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">“</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Le Baseball aux Etats</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Unis</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">”</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, in </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Les soirées de Paris, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">1914/07 (N26)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">1914/08 (N27)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, p. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">447</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">451, s</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ource gallica.bnf.fr, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ISSN 12459577</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Cf. rubrique La vie Anecdotique, in Mercure de France, n°489 tome CXXX, 1er novembre 1918, p. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">177.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[iv]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Mercure de France, n°486</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">tome CXX</span><span style="color: black;">I</span><span style="color: black;">X, 1</span><span style="color: black;">6</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">sept</span><span style="color: black;">embre 1918, </span><span style="color: black;">p. </span><span style="color: black;">346.</span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5327037030152747570.post-42198120796809145812014-05-21T17:47:00.000+02:002014-05-21T17:47:09.807+02:00L’énigme des culottes courtes<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">A</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">l’issue de la saison 1913, John B. Foster, éditeur du Spalding’s Official Baseball Guide annuel</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">autrement dit la Sainte Bible du Baseball </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">a </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">fait réaliser un ouvrage intitulé </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>Le</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>Baseball</i></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> [</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">i]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">contenant</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">s</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">photos des </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">différentes </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">équipes </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de la région parisienne</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">. La trace de ce livre semble </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">malheureusement </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">se perdre</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">à New York </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">au début du mois de mars 1914, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">après sa présentation</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">par </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/04/burgess-et-lassociation-de-base-ball-du.html">William H. </a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/04/burgess-et-lassociation-de-base-ball-du.html">Burgess</a> à des journalistes</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">qui en retiennent que les joueurs français apparaissent «</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>très </i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>soigneusement </i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>vêtus de culottes courtes et de chaussures légères</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">»[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ii]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">. Précisons à toutes fins utiles</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">que</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">une </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">part</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">la culotte courte de l’époque descend </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">tout de même </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">sous le genou</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, comme il est possible de le voir </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">sur cette photo de l’équipe du lycée Condorcet</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">publiée dans l’Offi</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">cial Baseball Guide</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, et d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">autre </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">part qu</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">il n</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">y a rien d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">extraordinaire à porter des culottes courtes puisque toutes les équipes de </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">American League et de la National League en portent[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">iii]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Bien. M</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ais q</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">uel est l’objectif poursuivi dans la réalisation de cet ouvrage</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et dans sa présentation à la </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">presse </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">? S’agit</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">il </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pour Burgess </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de constituer un </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">simple </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">album de souvenirs</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">? C’est fort peu probable. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Quand bien même les journalistes ont encore en cette période leurs regards braqués sur les touristes </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et leurs tribulations mondiales et spécialement parisiennes, pourquoi diable quelqu’un irait</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">il </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">organiser une conférence de pre</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">sse pour se contenter de montrer des photos de joueurs de baseball </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">français</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">datant de l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">année précédente </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">? Non, non, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">cela n’aurait pas de sens. L</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">a raison d’être de cette </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">opération médiatique est nécessairement plus subtile et</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, après réflexion,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">nous sommes d’avis qu’il </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">s’agit </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">constituer</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">un dossier et</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de rassembler </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">s</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">«</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">preuves</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">matérielles </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">» de la pratique du </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">baseball</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">en </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">France, susceptibles d’être utilisées plus tard auprès, par exemple, du Comité </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Olympique. Nous aurons l’occasion de revenir très bientôt sur cette théorie.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Nous pourrions </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">aussi </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">utile</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ment nous demander s’il n’y a pas un rapport avec cette déclaration de </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Burgess qui revient </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">très </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">régulièrement </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et avec beaucoup d’insistance </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">dans les articles de presse[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">iv]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">selon laquelle </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">«</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>les Français ont adopté pour leurs uniformes de baseball un tissu plu</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>s léger que le tissu classique et </i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>assez</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>sembl</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>abl</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>e à celui utilisé en athlétisme</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">»</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Halte</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">là</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">! </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Attardez</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">v</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ous un instant pour</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">relire cette phrase et </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">en saisir pleinement le sens</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">: «</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>les Français ont adopté pour leurs uniformes de baseball un tissu plus lége</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>r que le </i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>tissu classique et assez semblable à celui utilisé en athlétisme</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">»</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Si v</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ous y êtes</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, tâch</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ez de répondre à la </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">question qui suit</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">:</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Par quelle espèce de magie</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">les Français qui se mettent à peine à cette discipline </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pourraient</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ils sérieusement </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">exprimer</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">des préférences en la matière</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et en quoi leurs goûts </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">vestime</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ntaires seraient</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ils </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">suffisamment </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">dignes d’intérêt </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pour être exposés à des journalistes sportifs </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">newyorkais </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">? </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Prenez tout votre temps pour réfléchir puis passez au paragraphe suivant lorsque vous</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">êtes prêts.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Alors, u</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ne idée</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">?</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">L’écrivain Josh Chetwynd[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">v]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, qui relève le propos</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de Burgess</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, croit pouvoir justifier </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">cette curiosité en expliquant </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">que les Français ont apporté un</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">e part de leur culture à ce sport </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">en </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">troquant</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">les u</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">niformes de flanelle contre d’autres taillés dans des tissus plus confortables. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">C’est une </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">hypothèse séduisante mais qui ne prend</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pas</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">toutes les données en compte. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">En premier lieu, il ne </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">faut pas perdre de vue que Burgess travaille pour A. G. Spalding.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Par définition, tout ce qu’il peut </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">faire ou dire au sujet du baseball en France ne </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">peut</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pas être considéré autrement que comme</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">servant </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">une stratégie </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">globale </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’expansion commerciale. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Il suffit </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pour</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">s</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">en convaincre</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de relire </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">article sur l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Association de Baseball du Lycée <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/04/burgess-et-lassociation-de-base-ball-du.html">Condorcet </a>et de</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">remarquer </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">quelle</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">manière </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">innocente </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">i</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">l présente son </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">«</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">initiative</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">»</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">En second lieu, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">les tenues des équipes </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">parisiennes </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et pas </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">seul</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ement celles du club du Vésinet </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">dirigé par Burgess </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">sont fo</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">urnies par la maison Spaldin</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">g. Dès </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">lors, l’hypothèse la plus </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">digne d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">être retenue</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">nous paraît être celle de la promotion des produits </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Spaldin</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">g. Paris étant la capitale mondiale de la mode, pourquoi ne pas prétexter la pratique du </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">baseb</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">all en ce lieu pour annoncer le lancement </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">d’une nouvelle collection</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">?</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Pourquoi ne pas essayer </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">convaincre les Américains d’utiliser des étoffes moins lourdes et pa</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">r conséquent moins </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">coûteuses à produire, en leur donnant en modèle</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">les </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">F</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">rançais</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, réputés à travers le monde pour leur </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">élégance</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Vous n’êtes pas </span><span style="color: black;">tout</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">à</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">fait </span><span style="color: black;">convaincus</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">? Regardez de nouveau </span><span style="color: black;">mais cette fois</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">ci un plus </span><span style="color: black;">attentivement </span><span style="color: black;">la photo qui se trouve </span><span style="color: black;">ci</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">dessus</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">vous ne manquerez pas de relever </span><span style="color: black;">1) </span><span style="color: black;">que seuls les </span><span style="color: black;">joueurs en uniformes sont au premier rang</span><span style="color: black;">, 2) que les joueurs au second plan portent tous </span><span style="color: black;">d’élégantes cravates </span><span style="color: black;">bien ajustées[</span><span style="color: black;">vi]</span><span style="color: black;">,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et </span><span style="color: black;">3) </span><span style="color: black;">que tous les pantalons et les chemises sont d’un blanc </span><span style="color: black;">abs</span><span style="color: black;">olument </span><span style="color: black;">immaculé. Cette photo, dont on </span><span style="color: black;">pourrait penser au premier abord qu’elle a été prise sur </span><span style="color: black;">le vif</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">au printemps 1913</span><span style="color: black;">, a en réalité </span><span style="color: black;">certainement </span><span style="color: black;">été arrangée dans le but de mettre en </span><span style="color: black;">valeur</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">les </span><span style="color: black;">équipements Spalding.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Burgess savait</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">il en la prenant qu’il l’utiliserait avant l’ouverture de la </span><span style="color: black;">saison </span><span style="color: black;">1914</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">? Allez savoir</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Si v</span><span style="color: black;">ous </span><span style="color: black;">reproduisez</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">exercice avec la</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">photo des joueurs du RCF et de </span><span style="color: black;">l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">American Paris Team autour de la </span><a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/08/la-tournee-promotionnelle-en-normandie.html"><span style="color: black;">F</span><span style="color: black;">ord</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">à Sanvic</span></a><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et bien que rien ne permette </span><span style="color: black;">en l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">état </span><span style="color: black;">d</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">affirmer </span><span style="color: black;">avec certitude que c</span><span style="color: black;">ette photo a été utilisée dans </span><span style="color: black;"><i>Le</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>Baseball</i></span><span style="color: black;">, vous constaterez le même souci du </span><span style="color: black;">détail et de la mise en scène.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Il est bien entendu </span><span style="color: black;">impos</span><span style="color: black;">s</span><span style="color: black;">ible</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">de déterminer</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">si cette opération a eu une quelconque incidence sur </span><span style="color: black;">les ventes de Spalding</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et c</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">est d</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">ailleurs assez douteux</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">En revanche, ce qu</span><span style="color: black;">’il est très facile </span><span style="color: black;">d</span><span style="color: black;">’appréh</span><span style="color: black;">ender, c</span><span style="color: black;">’est l</span><span style="color: black;">’intérêt des </span><span style="color: black;">Américains</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">pour </span><span style="color: black;">le savoir</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">faire français en matière de </span><span style="color: black;">mod</span><span style="color: black;">e et de </span><span style="color: black;">confection. </span><span style="color: black;">Même si parfois, évidemment, </span><span style="color: black;">baseba</span><span style="color: black;">ll</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et </span><span style="color: black;">mode</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">ne font pas bon ménage</span><span style="color: black;">…</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Ainsi, par </span><span style="color: black;">exemple, pe</span><span style="color: black;">ut</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">on lire en mai 1913, un article[</span><span style="color: black;">vii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">citant le fameux couturier </span><span style="color: black;">parisien </span><span style="color: black;">Jacques Worth</span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">membre de l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">éminente famille de </span><span style="color: black;">Charles Frederick Worth</span><span style="color: black;">, inventeur</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">à plus d</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">un titre </span><span style="color: black;">de la </span><span style="color: black;">haute</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">couture telle que </span><span style="color: black;">nous la connaissons[</span><span style="color: black;">viii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et première superstar de la mode</span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">qui </span><span style="color: black;">s</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">exprime</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">sur le </span><span style="color: black;">baseball</span><span style="color: black;">. Mais jugez plutôt pas vous</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">même</span><span style="color: black;">s</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">:</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><i>Jacques Worth</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>, le fameux designer français, s</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>’est</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>dernièrement </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>fendu de quelques remarques à </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>propos de notre sport national. Il a dit</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>:</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: black;"><i>«</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>Pourquoi devrais</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>-</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>je critiquer votre sport national</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>?</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>»</i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: black;"><i>«</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>Je </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>le trouve</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>plutôt</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>stupide.</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>On ne peut pas y admirer de toilettes élégantes. Et les costumes des </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>joueurs sont </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>loin d</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>’être</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>chic.</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>»</i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: black;"><i>«</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>Je suis un sp</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>ortif</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>. Il n</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>’y a rien que j</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>’aime tant que de me rendre à un combat de </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>boxe dans cette </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>chère </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>France</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>car, là</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>-</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>bas, les dames </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>y </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>portent des toilettes ravissantes. C</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>’est vrai également </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>des </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>courses dans mon pays. </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>D</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>es milliers de femmes</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>y assistent. Elles portent des robes élégantes. </i></span><span style="color: black;">Ah</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">!</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Elles sont e</span><span style="color: black;">xquises</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">!</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">[en français dans le texte original].</span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>»</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: black;"><i>«</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>Mais votre stupide jeu de balle, que je viens de découvrir, est un non</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>-</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>événement. C</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>e n</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>’est rien </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>d</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>’autre que </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>la</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>réunion </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>de </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>vingt à trente mille</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>hommes qui </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>ne veulent pas travailler. Je me suis laissé </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>dire que certains </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>s</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>eraient</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>prêts à tuer</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>leur innocente et inoffensive grand</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>-</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>mère pour pouvoir assister à </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>un match. C</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>’</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>est absurde. Je ne souhaiterais</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>pas la mort de mon meilleur ennemi pour assister à un </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>millier de ces matc</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>hs.</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>»</i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: black;"><i>«</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>Moi, j</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>’aime la compétition lorsque deux personnes </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>de talent équivalent s</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>’affrontent. Dans votre </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>jeu, il y a neuf hommes contre un. Huit </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>hommes </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>restent assis sur un banc les bras croisés</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>pendant </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>que </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>les adversaires tentent d</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>’éliminer le neuvième. Ce n</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>’est pas équitable. Ce n</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>’est pas juste. Pour la </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>même raison, je n</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>’apprécie pas le billard, où pendant que l</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>’un joue, l</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>’autre reste les bras croisés, </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>incapable de po</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>uvoir contrer un seul </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>coup. Quelle différence avec la boxe</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>!</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>»</i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: black;"><i>«</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>Bien sûr, </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>certaines finesses du jeu m</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>’</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>ont peut</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>-</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>être échappé. Il n</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>’</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>y a r</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>ien de tel en </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>France</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>.</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>Et je </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>serais très surpris que le baseball soit un j</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>our adopté par le public là</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>-</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>bas. C</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>’est trop insipide. C</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>’est </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>inéquitable. Je pense qu</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>’une bonne partie de dominos est </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>encore </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>bien </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>plus </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>excitante</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>.</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>»</i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: black;"><i>«</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>Je dois bien avouer que je suis déçu par votre sport national. Je préfère </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>de </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>beaucoup</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>regarder des </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>gens </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>danser le turkey trot</i></span>[<span style="color: black;">ix]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><i>plutôt qu</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>’un match de baseball.</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>En fait, j</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>’ai dansé </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>le turkey trot </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>tous </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>les soirs de la semaine jusqu</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>’à trois heures </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>et demie</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>du matin et je pense que ce devrait être </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>là </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>votre </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>sport national</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>».</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[i]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Bien lire </span><span style="color: black; text-decoration: underline;"><i>Le</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>Baseball</i></span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[ii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">“Many Ball Clubs Playing In France”, in The Washington Herald, 16 mars 1914, p. 6. </span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[iii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Voir </span><span style="color: black;">l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">ex</span><span style="color: black;">cellent site </span><span style="color: black;">intitulé</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Dressed To The Nines / A histor</span><span style="color: black;">y of baseball uniforms</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">sous l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">adresse suivante : </span><span style="color: black;">http://exhibits.baseballhalloffame.org/dressed_to_the_nines/index.htm</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[iv]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Voir</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">notamment</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">“French Take Up Baseball; Play It In Track Costume”, in El Paso Herald, 16 </span><span style="color: black;">mars 1914, p. 7, ou </span><span style="color: black;">encore “Baseball Popular Sport In France”, in The Ogden Standard, 16 mars 1914, edition de 16h, p. 2.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[v]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Josh Chetwynd in «</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Baseball in Europe: A Country by Country History</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">, op. cit., p. 160.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[vi]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Tout au long du XIXème siècle, l</span><span style="color: black;">a cravate a </span><span style="color: black;">été un accessoire </span><span style="color: black;">très po</span><span style="color: black;">p</span><span style="color: black;">ulaire</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">de l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">uniforme de basebal</span><span style="color: black;">l</span><span style="color: black;">. Dans les années </span><span style="color: black;">1860</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">1870, il n</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">était pas rare que celui</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">ci compte même des </span><span style="color: black;">nœuds</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">papillon.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[vii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">The Daily Missourian., 21 mai 1913, édition du matin, p. 8</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[viii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">C</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">est</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">à</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Worth</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">que l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">on doit</span><span style="color: black;">, par exemple, le défilé de mannequins.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Lire cet </span><span style="color: black;">article</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">à son sujet </span><span style="color: black;">sur le site de Vogu</span><span style="color: black;">e </span><span style="color: black;">:</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">http://www.vogue.com/voguepedia/Worth</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[ix]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Le turkey trot</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">était</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">une danse </span><span style="color: black;">très </span><span style="color: black;">populaire</span><span style="color: black;">, ap</span><span style="color: black;">parue au Ray Jones Cafe à Chicag</span><span style="color: black;">o (Illinois) e</span><span style="color: black;">n 1909</span><span style="color: black;">. </span><span style="color: black;">Dénoncée par le </span><span style="color: black;">Vatican, qui la trouvait trop suggestive, e</span><span style="color: black;">lle a été supplantée par le fox trot </span><span style="color: black;">dès</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">1914.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">De </span><span style="color: black;">L’</span><span style="color: black;">Humanité au</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Figaro</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">en passant par</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Le Rappel,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Le Temps, Le Gaulois</span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">une </span><span style="color: black;">part significative </span><span style="color: black;">de la </span><span style="color: black;">presse régionale et nationale a consacré au moins un article dans ses colonnes au passage des major </span><span style="color: black;">leaguers</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">à <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2014/03/paris-rendez-vous-manque.html">Paris</a></span><span style="color: black;">. Peu importe qui a orchestré ce petit travail de propagande, le résultat est visible sur </span><span style="color: black;">les photos de l’époque</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">: plusieurs milliers de personnes se sont regroupées au vélodrome du Parc </span><span style="color: black;">des Princes et au stade de la Faisanderie dans l’espoir d’assister au</span><span style="color: black;">x rencontres. </span><span style="color: black;">Combien au juste </span><span style="color: black;">étaient</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">elles</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">? </span><span style="color: black;">Faute de </span><span style="color: black;">renseignements </span><span style="color: black;">fiables</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">sur la billetterie, il est bien évidemment assez difficile </span><span style="color: black;">de donner un chiffre sur le nombre de spectateurs. Nous disposons néanmoins de quelques </span><span style="color: black;">indications</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">pour nous faire un</span><span style="color: black;">e idée </span><span style="color: black;">: Pour McGraw, il y en a eu plus que n’importe où ailleurs durant </span><span style="color: black;">cette tournée, sachant </span><span style="color: black;">tout de même </span><span style="color: black;">que plus de 15.000 personnes avaient assisté à la </span><span style="color: black;">démonstration faite à Tokyo le 6 décembre 1913. A Nice, le petit stade municipal a </span><span style="color: black;">accueilli pas </span><span style="color: black;">moins de 5.000 curieux alors ce ne serait après tout pas </span><span style="color: black;">dé</span><span style="color: black;">raisonnable</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">de considérer que les </span><span style="color: black;">estimations de McGraw sont correctes et </span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">compte tenu de ce qu’un grand nombre des déçus du Parc </span><span style="color: black;">des Princes sont revenus le lendemain </span><span style="color: black;">–</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">de </span><span style="color: black;">nous arrêter sur une fo</span><span style="color: black;">urchette totale de 15 à 20.000 sur </span><span style="color: black;">les deux jours.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Evidemment, n</span><span style="color: black;">ous pourrions nous </span><span style="color: black;">contenter de nous </span><span style="color: black;">dire qu’attirer l’attention d’une </span><span style="color: black;">telle foule</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">constitue </span><span style="color: black;">en soi </span><span style="color: black;">un extraordinaire jalon dans la phase de développement de ce sport dans </span><span style="color: black;">l’hexagone</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et que l’</span><span style="color: black;">essentiel a été assuré</span><span style="color: black;">. Ce serait perdre un peu trop vite </span><span style="color: black;">de vue </span><span style="color: black;">le caractère </span><span style="color: black;">capricieux et irascible du p</span><span style="color: black;">arisien.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Vous pensiez que rien ne peut être pire qu’un rainout</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">?</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Détrompez</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">vous, il y a bien pire</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">: un rainout </span><span style="color: black;">parisien</span><span style="color: black;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Annuler la première rencontre</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">à Auteuil</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">parce qu’il pleut</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">? Passe encore</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">. Après tout</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">cette tournée </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">mondiale doit être épuisante</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, n’est</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ce pas</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">?</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Donnons</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">leur</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">donc </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">une chance</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de se racheter</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Annuler </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">la seconde alors que tout le monde a fait le trajet jusqu’à Saint</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Cloud et que </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">nous sav</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ons</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pertinemment que les Américains sillonnent la ville sans relâche depuis leur arrivée et surtout sans </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">se soucier de la pluie… N’est</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ce pas un peu se moquer du monde</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">?</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Qu’est</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ce que c’est que ce sport </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">que l’on ne peut pratiquer dès qu’il tombe trois gout</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">tes</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">? </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Nos</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">joueurs de football et de rugby ne </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">gagnent sans doute pas les fortunes des joueurs de baseball mais, intempéries ou pas, eux ne </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">rechignent pas à relever le défi</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">surtout, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ils ont la délicatesse de prévenir le</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ur</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">public si </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">par </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">extraordinaire</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">un match est annulé.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">C’est ainsi que les articles expliquant sobrement après le premier rendez</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">vous manqué que «</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>le </i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>match […] n’a pu avoir lieu à cause de la pluie qui avait rendu le terrain impraticable</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">»[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">i]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">laissent assez </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">rapidement la place à d’autres </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ne</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ttement</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">moins amènes. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Porte</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">drapeau de ce mouvement </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">d’humeur,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">La Presse s’emporte promptement dès le dimanche</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">22 février</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">sous le titre</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">sans équivoque</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">«</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>Les champions américains brillent par leur absence</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">»[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ii]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><i>Comme hier</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>, de nombreux sportsmen se sont aujo</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>urd’hui dérangés inutilement pour </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>admirer le jeu de Base</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>-</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>ball, si en faveur en Amérique. Le mauvais temps, une fois de plus, </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>empêcha de jouer les deux célèbres clubs, annoncés avec tant de fracas. C’est là un cas de </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>force majeure contre lequel il n’y a rie</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>n à dire. Il n’en est pas moins vrai que les spectateurs </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>qui s’étaient rendus en foule à Saint</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>-</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>Cloud ont trouvé que ces messieurs les géants de New</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>-</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>York et les White Sox de Chicago auraient pu dès ce matin, vu le temps, trouver le moyen de </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>prévenir les spo</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>rtsmen qu’ils n’aient pas à se déranger. Une fois, cela passe encore. Deux fois, </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>c’</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>est exagéré. Les gé</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>a</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>n</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>ts, les White Sox n’emporteront pas avec eux les sympathies du public </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>parisien. Quelques mauvaises langues ont colporté le bruit que deux soirées à Mont</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>martre </i></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>avaient fatigué les athlètes américains</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>; il n’en est pas moins vrai qu’ils pouvaient nous éviter, </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>aujourd’hui<span style="font-family: inherit;"> comme hier, un déplacement désagréable autant qu’inutile.</span></i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>»</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">A son tour</span><span style="color: black;">,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">les jours suivants</span><span style="color: black;">, l</span><span style="color: black;">e journaliste </span><span style="color: black;">Marcel Delarbre </span><span style="color: black;">se fend dans </span><span style="color: black;">le</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">journal L’Echo des Sports </span><span style="color: black;">d’un article au vitriol </span><span style="color: black;">intitulé</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><i>Ce que j’ai vu du base</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>-</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>ball</i></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">bien révélateur d’un certain état d’esprit </span><span style="color: black;">parisien </span><span style="color: black;">:</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><i>La troupe de joueurs professionnels américains qui devait nous initier aux beautés du base</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>-</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>ball a</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>-</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>t</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>-</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>elle eu</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>l’intention de se moquer de nous</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>? Elle paraît avoir complètement réussi. Le </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>public parisien a mangé du lapin samedi et dimanche… L’ambassadeur des Etats</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>-</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>Unis était </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>présent sur le terrain du Stade Français, dimanche, et «</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>poireauta</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>» une bonne heure dans </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>l’attente de ses illustres concitoyens. Le base</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>-</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>ball apparaît donc en France sous de </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>malheureux auspices… Notez que ces messieurs n’ont aucune raison à faire valoir. Ils ne se </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>sont même pas dérangés de leur hôtel. Il fallut, pour être fixé, qu’on leur télé</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>phonât de la </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>Faisanderie, à trois heures, pour savoir si oui ou non ils venaient. Pas un émissaire, pas une </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>excuse. Le mauvais temps a vraiment bon dos. Défions</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>-</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>nous de généraliser mais nous nous </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>souviendrons quand même de ce sans</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>-</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>gêne. Nous ne remportons </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>pas les prix aux jeux </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>olympiques, c’est vrai, mais nous sommes tout de même d’une race un peu plus respectueuse </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>d’autrui. A la revoyure, Messieurs</i></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">».</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Paradoxalement</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et c’est le journal La Presse qui ne manque pas de le relever </span><span style="color: black;">le 5 mars </span><span style="color: black;">sous la </span><span style="color: black;">plume du </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">sportsman inconnu</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»[</span><span style="color: black;">iii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">nous pouvons lire en première page de cette même édition mais </span><span style="color: black;">évidemment </span><span style="color: black;">signé </span><span style="color: black;">d’un autre journaliste :</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><i>Il y eut dimanche un spectateur qui se dérangea, en dépit du temps, pour aller voir le match </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>de base</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>-</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>ball qui devait se disp</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>uter à la Faisanderie. Et ce déplacement</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>-</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>là, par un jour de pluie, </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>n’est pas une des joies de l’existence. Cet homme, héroïque ou tout simplement malavisé, </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>n’était autre que l’envoyé spécial de notre confrère La Presse. Et l’on s’explique qu’il ait </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>exhalé </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>sa mauvaise humeur en termes sévères le soir même, dans les colonnes de son journal. </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>N’alla</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>-</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>t</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>-</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>il pas jusqu’à accuser les joueurs Américains de n’avoir pas pu venir jouer parce qu’ils </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>avaient passé la nuit à Montmartre</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>! Mais aussi pourquoi ce brave journal</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>iste n’avait</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>-</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>il pas lu </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>les journaux, qui annonçaient tous qu’en cas de mauvais temps le match serait annulé</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>? et </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>pour cause.</i></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">De l’autre côté de l’Atlantique,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">où l’on est coutumier des rainouts,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">on observe toute cette agitation </span><span style="color: black;">avec philosophie</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et </span><span style="color: black;">une bon</span><span style="color: black;">ne dose</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">d’humour</span><span style="color: black;">. </span><span style="color: black;">Quand ils ne comptent pas fleurette, l</span><span style="color: black;">es Français </span><span style="color: black;">adorent polémiquer et chercher querelle</span><span style="color: black;">, tout le monde sait cela alors pourquoi se formaliser</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">? </span><span style="color: black;">L’Eugene Register Guard[</span><span style="color: black;">iv]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">évacue la question et règle le sort des Français en trois petites p</span><span style="color: black;">hrases</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">: </span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><i>Les sportifs français tiennent des propos fort désagréables sur les joueurs de baseball globe</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>-</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>trotteurs. Quelques duels sont annoncés. Les Français feraient bien de ne pas s’aviser de </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>prendre les boules de neige comme projectiles s’ils ne veule</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>nt pas </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>être pris pour cible par les</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>tireurs d’élite américains.</i></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">» </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">La réaction la plus intéressante est </span><span style="color: black;">de loin</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">celle du dessinateur Goldberg qui, dans le Washington </span><span style="color: black;">Times du 19 mars 1914, évoque le quiproquo avec finesse et élégance. Lapin</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">? Vous avez dit</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">lapin</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">?</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Dessin par Goldberg, in The Washington Times, 19 mars 1914, p. 13.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><span style="color: black;"><i>Après avoir visité Paris, il sera impossible de </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>jouer tout un match san</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>s </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>s’</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>interrompre pour se rendre à un </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>rendez</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>-</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>vous. </i></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Pardonnez mon retard, Mademoiselle. J’avais cru </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">comprendre que nous nous retrouverions en </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">première base et non en troisième.)</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[i]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">La pluie ennemie du base</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">ball</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">», in Le Rappel, 22 février 1914.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Voir aussi «</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">On ne joue pas quand il pleut</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">, in </span><span style="color: black;">Le Matin, 23 février 1914</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">: «</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><i>Deux équipes de joueurs […] devaient faire deux matchs de démonstration, l’un </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>avant</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>-</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>hier au Parc des Princes, l’autre hier sur le terrain du Stade Français à Saint</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>-</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>Cloud. Le ma</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>uvais temps </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>empêcha le jeu.</i></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[ii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Les champions américains brillent par leur absence</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">», in La Presse, 22 février 1914, p. 1.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[iii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Paille et poutre</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">», in La Presse, 5 mars 1914, p. 3.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><i>Pr</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>emier journaliste de sport de l</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>’</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>ère moderne</i></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><i>écrivain légendaire</i></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><i>j</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>ournaliste </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>le plus connu de sa génération</i></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><i>faiseur de mythes</i></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><i>philosophe optimiste</i></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">t</span><span style="color: black;">e</span><span style="color: black;">ls sont quelqu</span><span style="color: black;">es</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">uns des </span><span style="color: black;">qualificatifs que l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">on rencontre </span><span style="color: black;">fréquemment </span><span style="color: black;">accolés</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">au</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">nom de Grantland Rice</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Rien ne prédestinait pourtant ce</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">fils de marchand </span><span style="color: black;">de coton et petit</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">fils d</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">officier confédéré</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">né </span><span style="color: black;">en 1880 </span><span style="color: black;">en plein centre</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">du Tennessee</span><span style="color: black;">,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">à Murfreesboro, </span><span style="color: black;">à devenir </span><span style="color: black;">celui qui allait révolutionner le journalisme sportif et lui donner de véritables lettres de </span><span style="color: black;">nob</span><span style="color: black;">lesse.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="color: black;">J</span><span style="color: black;">eune </span><span style="color: black;">diplômé </span><span style="color: black;">en 1901</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">de l</span><span style="color: black;">a Vanderbilt University</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">avec pour </span><span style="color: black;">principales </span><span style="color: black;">mat</span><span style="color: black;">ières </span><span style="color: black;">le grec et le latin</span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">Rice </span><span style="color: black;">est pa</span><span style="color: black;">ssionné par le football, le golf</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">mais surtout le baseball. </span><span style="color: black;">N</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">ayant pu devenir professionnel </span><span style="color: black;">de cette discipline, il</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">ambition</span><span style="color: black;">ne </span><span style="color: black;">de devenir journaliste. </span><span style="color: black;">Il </span><span style="color: black;">écrit</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">tout d</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">abord </span><span style="color: black;">pour </span><span style="color: black;">la page sport du</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><i>Nashville Daily News</i></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">à raison de 5 dollars par semaine.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Il rejoint</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;"><i>A</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>t</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>lanta </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>Journal</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;">dès </span><span style="color: black;">l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">année suivante</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et </span><span style="color: black;">y double son salaire.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">C</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">est là qu</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">il </span><span style="color: black;">signe</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">son premier grand </span><span style="color: black;">papier</span><span style="color: black;">, au sujet d</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">un prometteur </span><span style="color: black;">joueur de baseball </span><span style="color: black;">de 18 ans </span><span style="color: black;">du nom de Tyrus Raymon</span><span style="color: black;">d</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Cobb. </span><span style="color: black;">L</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">avenir démontrera que son </span><span style="color: black;">jugement su</span><span style="color: black;">r</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">ce petit prodige était tout</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">à</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">fait juste. </span><span style="color: black;">T</span><span style="color: black;">out </span><span style="color: black;">au long des trois ans qu</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">il</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">passe</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">à Atlanta</span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">il prend </span><span style="color: black;">progressivement </span><span style="color: black;">l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">habitu</span><span style="color: black;">de de briser le rythme </span><span style="color: black;">de</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">ses longs </span><span style="color: black;">articles </span><span style="color: black;">en </span><span style="color: black;">y insérant</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">de</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">court</span><span style="color: black;">s </span><span style="color: black;">poèmes</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">d</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">inspiration lyrique</span><span style="color: black;">, dont certains passeront à la postérité. </span><span style="color: black;">Par exemple</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">:</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">For when the One G</span><span style="color: black;">reat Scorer</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">comes</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">To mark against your name</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">He writes </span><span style="color: black;">–</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">not </span><span style="color: black;">that </span><span style="color: black;">you won or lost </span><span style="color: black;">–</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">But how you played the game</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Fortement </span><span style="color: black;">imprégné de récits mythologiques, il </span><span style="color: black;">dépeint </span><span style="color: black;">de plus en plus </span><span style="color: black;">régulièrement</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">les </span><span style="color: black;">ath</span><span style="color: black;">l</span><span style="color: black;">ètes</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">qui l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">inspirent </span><span style="color: black;">comme des héros antiques</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">voire </span><span style="color: black;">d</span><span style="color: black;">e</span><span style="color: black;">s demi</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">dieux</span><span style="color: black;">. </span><span style="color: black;">Son style</span><span style="color: black;">,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">marqué par une qualité </span><span style="color: black;">littéraire </span><span style="color: black;">très </span><span style="color: black;">atypique </span><span style="color: black;">pour l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">époque</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et par un</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">traitement quasi sociologique</span><span style="color: black;">,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">le fait </span><span style="color: black;">bien vite </span><span style="color: black;">app</span><span style="color: black;">récier du public et </span><span style="color: black;">remarquer</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">par les rédacteurs en chef de la concurrence</span><span style="color: black;">. L</span><span style="color: black;">e </span><span style="color: black;"><i>Cleveland News</i></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">le </span><span style="color: black;">débauch</span><span style="color: black;">e pour</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">50 dollars la semaine</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">lui permet</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">ainsi</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">de prendre une épouse</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et fonder une </span><span style="color: black;">famille</span><span style="color: black;">. La lune de miel qui suit le mariage</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">en avril 1906</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">est passée à suivre l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">équipe de baseball de </span><span style="color: black;">Cleveland</span><span style="color: black;">, c</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">est dire si sa passion du sport es</span><span style="color: black;">t </span><span style="color: black;">forte</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">![</span><span style="color: black;">i]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">En 1910, il rejoint pour la premiè</span><span style="color: black;">re fois </span><span style="color: black;">la </span><span style="color: black;">grosse pomme</span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">y accepte un poste au </span><span style="color: black;"><i>New York Evening Mail</i></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et intitule sa rubrique </span><span style="color: black;"><i>The Sportlight</i></span><span style="color: black;">, ce </span><span style="color: black;">qui deviendra </span><span style="color: black;">ultérieurement </span><span style="color: black;">l</span><span style="color: black;">a marque</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">de toute sa production</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Ses </span><span style="color: black;">nombreux </span><span style="color: black;">articles sur </span><span style="color: black;">le </span><span style="color: black;">manager des Giants</span><span style="color: black;">,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">John McGraw</span><span style="color: black;">,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et </span><span style="color: black;">sur le lanceur </span><span style="color: black;">Christy Mathewson</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">sont </span><span style="color: black;">plébiscités</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">par le</span><span style="color: black;">s </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">lecteurs</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Trois ans plus tard, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">en janvier 1914, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">il est engagé par le </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>New York Tribune</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">qui </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">–</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">fait </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">rare </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">consac</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">re une pleine page pour annoncer son arrivée</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Il y reste</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">jusqu</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">e dans les</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">années 1930</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, avec </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">une parenthèse notable</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">:</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Durant la première guerre mondiale, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">il </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">sert </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">à Paris jusqu</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">en </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">février </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">1919 </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">comme lieutenant au profit du</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">journal </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">des </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">American Expeditionary Forces</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, le</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">fameux </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>Stars and </i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>Stripes</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, dont nous aurons l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">occasion de reparler plus tard</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Le 19</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">octobre 1924</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">son article sur le match de foo</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">tball Notre Dame </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">–</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Army</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">fait sensation[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ii]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, et tout </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">p</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">articulièrement son paragraphe d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’introduction</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, dans lequel il écrit</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">au sujet de quatre des joueurs de </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">équipe du Fighting Irish</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">en référence aux cavaliers de l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Apocalypse</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="color: black;">Outlined against a blue</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In </span><span style="color: black;">dramatic lore they are known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction, and Death. These </span><span style="color: black;">are only aliases. Their real names are Stuhldrehe</span><span style="color: black;">r, Miller, Crowley and Layden.</span></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Il </span><span style="color: black;">quitte le </span><span style="color: black;"><i>Tribune</i></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">en 1934 </span><span style="color: black;">et écrit</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">durant </span><span style="color: black;">les </span><span style="color: black;">vingt</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">dernières années de sa vie </span><span style="color: black;">pour la </span><span style="color: black;"><i>North Americ</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>an </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>Newspaper Alliance</i></span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">qui assure</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">une </span><span style="color: black;">diffusion</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">simultanée </span><span style="color: black;">de ses articles </span><span style="color: black;">dans </span><span style="color: black;">80 </span><span style="color: black;">à</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">100 journaux </span><span style="color: black;">différents </span><span style="color: black;">et </span><span style="color: black;">fait</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">ainsi </span><span style="color: black;">sa fortune.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Rice édite par ailleurs </span><span style="color: black;">le magazine </span><span style="color: black;"><i>American Golfer</i></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et </span><span style="color: black;">est un </span><span style="color: black;">contributeur fréquent de </span><span style="color: black;"><i>Collier</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>’</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>s</i></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et </span><span style="color: black;"><i>Look</i></span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Parallè</span><span style="color: black;">lement, il participe </span><span style="color: black;">également</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">à de</span><span style="color: black;">s</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">projets </span><span style="color: black;">radiophoniques </span><span style="color: black;">(il </span><span style="color: black;">commente en 1922</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">les World Series retransmises pour la première fois en direct) </span><span style="color: black;">et cinématographiques.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">D</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">après </span><span style="color: black;">l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">auteur </span><span style="color: black;">Charles Fountain[</span><span style="color: black;">iii]</span><span style="color: black;">,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Rice atteint</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">alors </span><span style="color: black;">des revenus</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">supérieurs </span><span style="color: black;">à </span><span style="color: black;">ceux de </span><span style="color: black;">n</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">importe </span><span style="color: black;">quel</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">autre sportif</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">à l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">exception </span><span style="color: black;">peut</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">être </span><span style="color: black;">du boxeur Jack Dempsey.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">A</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">la mort de Babe Ruth</span><span style="color: black;">, en 1948</span><span style="color: black;">, il rédige</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">un</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">poème[</span><span style="color: black;">iv]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">en guise d</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">éloge funéraire</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">qui </span><span style="color: black;">assied </span><span style="color: black;">davantage encore sa popularité</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et dont la première strophe est</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">:</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Game Called by darkness </span><span style="color: black;">—</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">let the curtain fall</span><span style="color: black;">.</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">No more remembered thunder sweeps the field</span><span style="color: black;">.</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">No more the ancient echoes hear the cal</span><span style="color: black;">l</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">To one who wore so well both sword and shield</span><span style="color: black;">:</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">The Big Guy’s left us with the night to fac</span><span style="color: black;">e</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">And there is no one who can take his place</span><span style="color: black;">.</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Rice publie</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">ses mémoires</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">peu de temps avant de mourir</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">en 1954</span><span style="color: black;">, à</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">âge de </span><span style="color: black;">73 ans</span><span style="color: black;">, sous le</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">titre </span><span style="color: black;"><i>The </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>tumult and the shouting</i></span><span style="color: black;">, livrant à ses admirateurs l</span><span style="color: black;">a synthèse </span><span style="color: black;">d</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">une carrière longue de plus de 50 ans, </span><span style="color: black;">qui l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">a</span><span style="color: black;">ura</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">vu écrire un total de 22.000 colonnes, </span><span style="color: black;">de </span><span style="color: black;">plu</span><span style="color: black;">s de 1.000 articles de magazine, </span><span style="color: black;">de près de </span><span style="color: black;">7.0</span><span style="color: black;">00 vers</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">publiés dans </span><span style="color: black;">divers</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">recueils</span><span style="color: black;">, et se lier d</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">amitié avec quelques</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">uns des plus grands </span><span style="color: black;">personnages</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">de son époque, tels que Christy Mathewson</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">ou Robe</span><span style="color: black;">rt </span><span style="color: black;">Winship Woodruff (président </span><span style="color: black;">de la Coca</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">Cola Company</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">de 1923 à 1954</span><span style="color: black;">)</span><span style="color: black;">, et </span><span style="color: black;">cela apparemment </span><span style="color: black;">sans se faire</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">jamais un seul </span><span style="color: black;">ennemi, ni p</span><span style="color: black;">armi ses concurrents, ni parmi l</span><span style="color: black;">es sujets</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">de ses écrits</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Même si so</span><span style="color: black;">n style peut paraître </span><span style="color: black;">aujourd</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">hui </span><span style="color: black;">comme </span><span style="color: black;">relevant</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">d</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">un certain p</span><span style="color: black;">ompiérisme</span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">le fait </span><span style="color: black;">e</span><span style="color: black;">st que nombre de sportifs </span><span style="color: black;">parmi </span><span style="color: black;">l</span><span style="color: black;">esquels</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Bobby Jones, Babe Ruth, Red Grange, Knut Rockne, </span><span style="color: black;">Babe Didrikson Zaharias</span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">Jack </span><span style="color: black;">Dempsey</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">ou bien encore</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Bill Tilden</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">lui doivent </span><span style="color: black;">d</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">avoir atteint le statut de stars[</span><span style="color: black;">v]</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></div>
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du magazine Collier’s, n°23, vol. 52, 21 février 1914.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Mais rev</span><span style="color: black;">e</span><span style="color: black;">nons </span><span style="color: black;">à nos touristes et à leur passage en </span><span style="color: black;">France</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">En février 1914, alors que les </span><span style="color: black;">majorleaguers sont encore en Europe</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et que </span><span style="color: black;">Grantland </span><span style="color: black;">Rice vient de rejoindre le </span><span style="color: black;"><i>New York Tribune</i></span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">la revue </span><span style="color: black;"><i>Collier’s</i>[</span><span style="color: black;">vi]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">publie </span><span style="color: black;">l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">un de ses</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">poème</span><span style="color: black;">s</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">intitulé </span><span style="color: black;"><i>Beaucoup Fanatic</i></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et probablement </span><span style="color: black;">composé</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">pendant l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">hiver </span><span style="color: black;">1913</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">1914</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">sur le thème des Français</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et du baseball</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">The</span><span style="color: black;">se guys are excitable, flightable, fightable</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">More than enough as it is</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">At this very least matter of clatter and chatter</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">The</span><span style="color: black;">ir fluttering nerves take a whiz</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">And if they flop now, like a quivering bird</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">In a volatile whirl to the mat</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">What the deuce would they</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">do with a Crawford on third</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">And a T. Raymond Cobb at the bat</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">At starting a flare</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">up, a talkative tearup</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">A Francois is worse than a Mike</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">The wildest, unstoppable, most frenzied hopable</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Boob in the sweep of the pike</span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">If their temperament in the past has exp</span><span style="color: black;">loded</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">At trifles, like holes in their sox</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">What the deuce will they do when the bases are loaded</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">With Johnson out there in the box</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Si je me </span><span style="color: black;">risque à </span><span style="color: black;">l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">exercice périlleux de la traduction de</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">ce petit bijou</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">en essayant </span><span style="color: black;">tant bien que mal </span><span style="color: black;">de respecter les rimes et l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">esprit[</span><span style="color: black;">vii]</span><span style="color: black;">, cela donne </span><span style="color: black;">à peu près </span><span style="color: black;">ceci</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">:</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Ces gars</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">sont nerveux, </span><span style="color: black;">impétueux</span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">belliqueux</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Pour que dalle</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Au moindre </span><span style="color: black;">bruit ou mot de travers</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">L</span><span style="color: black;">eurs nerfs</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">à </span><span style="color: black;">vif</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">s’emballent</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Et s’ils </span><span style="color: black;">retombent soudain,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">comme un oiseau </span><span style="color: black;">en émoi</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">E</span><span style="color: black;">n tourbillonnant sur </span><span style="color: black;">une </span><span style="color: black;">n</span><span style="color: black;">atte</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Que diable feraient</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">i</span><span style="color: black;">ls avec un Crawford en trois</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Et </span><span style="color: black;">un T. R</span><span style="color: black;">aymond Cobb à la batte</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Pour </span><span style="color: black;">une flambée</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">de</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">violence</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">ou </span><span style="color: black;">une</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">altercation</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Un François est pire </span><span style="color: black;">qu’un Mike</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Le</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">plus sauvag</span><span style="color: black;">e</span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">incontrôlable, frénétique</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">espérable</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">B</span><span style="color: black;">ouffon </span><span style="color: black;">du maniement</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">de la pique</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Si leur tempérament les a </span><span style="color: black;">fait</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">exploser </span><span style="color: black;">sans peine</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Pour des bagatelles</span><span style="color: black;">,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">comme </span><span style="color: black;">des</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">trou</span><span style="color: black;">s</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">dans la</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">chaussette droite</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Que diable feront</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">ils lorsque les bases seron</span><span style="color: black;">t pleines</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Et que</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Johnson </span><span style="color: black;">sera </span><span style="color: black;">dans la boîte</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Sam Crawford, s</span><span style="color: black;">urnommé «</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Wahoo Sam</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">joueur pour les Cincinnati Reds puis les Detroit Tigers. Il</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">fait </span><span style="color: black;">justement partie des heureux <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.com/2014/03/la-tournee-mondiale-des-chicago-white.html">touristes</a></span><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.com/2014/03/la-tournee-mondiale-des-chicago-white.html"> </a></span><span style="color: black;">qui sont </span><span style="color: black;">passés par Paris.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Ty</span><span style="color: black;">rus</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Raymond Cobb est le</span><span style="color: black;"> coéquipier de Crawford aux </span><span style="color: black;">Detroit Tigers</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Il frappe </span><span style="color: black;">pour .390 en 1913</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">ce qui en fait le</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">meilleur attaquant de la saison</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Walter Johnson</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">a effectué toute sa carrière avec les Washington Senators</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">aux côtés de Germany </span><span style="color: black;">S</span><span style="color: black;">c</span><span style="color: black;">haefer</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Il est certes désigné comme m</span><span style="color: black;">eilleur lanceur de </span><span style="color: black;">l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">American League</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">en</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">1912[</span><span style="color: black;">viii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et 1913 </span><span style="color: black;">mais</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">comme beaucoup de lanceurs</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">affiche une</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">médiocre</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">moyenne de frappe</span><span style="color: black;">, d</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">où l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">interrogation de </span><span style="color: black;">Rice</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">sur </span><span style="color: black;">la réaction</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">des Français lorsqu</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">un tel joueur se présente à la batte</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[i]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Voir</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">la page consacrée à Rice sur </span><span style="color: black;">le site www.nycommunitytrust.org</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[ii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">The Eloq</span><span style="color: black;">uent Words Of Legendary Writers</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">, par Ira</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">B</span><span style="color: black;">erkow, in The New York Times, 2 janvier 2000.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[iii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Lire </span><span style="color: black;">à</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">ce sujet</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">la biographie de Foutain parue sous le titre</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Sportswriter: The Life and Times of Grantland Rice</span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[iv]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">L</span><span style="color: black;">e poème complet </span><span style="color: black;">est disponible </span><span style="color: black;">ici</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">:</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">www.baseball</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">almanac.com/poetry/po_call.shtml</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[v]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Lire </span><span style="color: black;">l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">ouvrage </span><span style="color: black;">de</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Mark Inabinett </span><span style="color: black;">paru en</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">1994</span><span style="color: black;">,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Grantland Rice and His Her</span><span style="color: black;">oes: The Sportswriter as </span><span style="color: black;">Mythmaker</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">in </span><span style="color: black;">the 1920s</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[vi]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Collier’s, n°23, vol. 52, 21 février 1914, p. 12</span><span style="color: black;">. Repris notamment dans le Daily Kennebec Journal du 8 avril 1914 (p. </span><span style="color: black;">7).</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[vii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Je me ferai un plaisir de remplacer cette traduction</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">approximative</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">par celle qu</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">un</span><span style="color: black;">(e)</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">li</span><span style="color: black;">n</span><span style="color: black;">guiste </span><span style="color: black;">me soumettrait.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[viii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Nationals Figure High In All Star Baseball Choice</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">, in </span><span style="color: black;">The Washing</span><span style="color: black;">ton Times, 13 octobre 1912, 21.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Garamond,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 9.96pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">C’est avec quelques </span><span style="color: black;">regrets </span><span style="color: black;">et probablement </span><span style="color: black;">encore </span><span style="color: black;">quelques </span><span style="color: black;">confettis dans les cheveux </span><span style="color: black;">que les 67 </span><span style="color: black;">touristes quittent </span><span style="color: black;">les <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2014/03/nice-hit.html">Alpes</a></span><a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2014/03/nice-hit.html"><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">Maritimes</span></a><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">l</span><span style="color: black;">e 17 février 1914. </span><span style="color: black;">Toulon, Marseille, Lyon… </span><span style="color: black;">A mesure qu</span><span style="color: black;">e </span><span style="color: black;">le train progresse en direction du nord et traverse </span><span style="color: black;">v</span><span style="color: black;">illages, </span><span style="color: black;">villes et </span><span style="color: black;">campagne</span><span style="color: black;">s</span><span style="color: black;">, la beauté des </span><span style="color: black;">paysages provoque une </span><span style="color: black;">sorte de </span><span style="color: black;">révélation[</span><span style="color: black;">i]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">chez les voyageurs</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">: la France leur réserve </span><span style="color: black;">encore </span><span style="color: black;">bien </span><span style="color: black;">d’autres merveilles. Jim Thorpe, qui avait eu </span><span style="color: black;">brièvement </span><span style="color: black;">l’occasion de s</span><span style="color: black;">éjourner à Paris </span><span style="color: black;">à son retour </span><span style="color: black;">des <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/03/le-roi-des-sports-le-sport-des-rois.html">Jeux de Stockholm</a></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">en 1912, </span><span style="color: black;">ne peut que </span><span style="color: black;">leur </span><span style="color: black;">confirme</span><span style="color: black;">r</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">que la capitale </span><span style="color: black;">au bout </span><span style="color: black;">du</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">che</span><span style="color: black;">min </span><span style="color: black;">est à </span><span style="color: black;">la hauteur de sa réputation</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Aucun d’entre eux ne soupçonne </span><span style="color: black;">cependant</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">à quel point l’accueil qui </span><span style="color: black;">leur est réservé </span><span style="color: black;">sera</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">tout </span><span style="color: black;">bonnement</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">royal.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Comi</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">skey et Sullivan, déjà sur place</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">à l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">hôtel Saint James[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ii]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">depuis quelques jours, ont eu le loisir </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">d’apporter le plus grand soin aux petits détails de l’organisation, et nul doute que Muhr et son </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/04/a-la-recherche-de-la-commission.html">Comité de Paris</a> mais aussi Roosevelt et l’<a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/04/burgess-et-lassociation-de-base-ball-du.html">A.B.B.</a> tout autant que Messerly et </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">l’<a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/03/messerly-et-lunion-francaise-de-base.html">Union F</a></span><a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/03/messerly-et-lunion-francaise-de-base.html"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">rançaise de </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Base</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Ball</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ont œuvré collectivement </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">depuis des semaines voire des mois </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pour faire du passage des </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Giants et des White Sox à Paris l’un des principaux événements sportifs de l’année.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">D</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">e plus, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">illustres membres de</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">la très importante comm</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">una</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">uté américaine de Paris ont spontanément </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">apporté leur contribution à ce projet. C</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">est notamment le cas de George A. Kessler, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">new</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">yorkais</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">devenu </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">millionnaire</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">grâce au commerce du vin, qui met à</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">la</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">dispositio</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">n des touristes une flotte</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">s</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">p</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">é</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ciale</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">véhicules automobiles </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">(</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">dont </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">il n</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">est pas interdit de penser qu</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">il s</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">agit de </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ceux de la </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">concession </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Ford</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/10/les-premiers-parrains-ford.html">White</a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">!</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">) pour leur permettre de </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">sillonner</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">la ville </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">dès </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">le</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">18 </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">février[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">iii]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Etant donné </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">que</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">le premi</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">e</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">r match</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">n</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">est prévu que pour le </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">21</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">es profes</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">sionnels du baseball </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et leurs </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">accompagnateurs </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ont tout le temps nécessaire pour </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">découvr</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ir</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ainsi</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, malgré la pluie incessante,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">le </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Louvre, les I</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">n</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">valides</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">la tomb</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">e de l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Empereur[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">iv]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">le jardin du </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Luxembourg</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">la Sorbonne, le Panthéon, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">bien évidemment la tour Eiffel</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">aux pieds de laquelle l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">es équipes </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de Spal</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ding avai</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">en</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">t joué</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">en 1889</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Notre</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Dame, les Champs</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Elysées, le bois de Boulogne</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, etc.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Certains vont à l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">opéra, assister à </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">une </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">r</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">e</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">présentation de </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">la damnation de Faust</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et font </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">probablement</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">aussi </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">un crochet par le New York </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Bar </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">du </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">jockey <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/04/la-all-paris-league-3eme-partie-la.html">Tod Sloan</a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">qui leur sert de guide[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">v]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Le jeudi 19, Kessler organise </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">dans son somptueux palais de l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’avenue Raphaël[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">vi]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">une fantastique </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">réception</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">en l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">honneur des White Sox et des Giants[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">vii]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Parmi les invités de marque figurent</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">entre </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">autres</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Ambassadeur </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Myron T. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">H</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">errick, le Consul Général des Etats</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Unis A. M. Thackara, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">le </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Président du Conseil Municipal de Paris</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Paul Chassaigne</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Goyon</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">le Préfet de la Seine</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Marcel </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Delanney</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">le</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">jeune</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">millionnaire </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">new</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">yorkais</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Frank Jay Gould[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">viii]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, etc. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Raymon</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Poincaré, le </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Présid</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ent de la République Française, censé </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">honorer</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">assemblée de sa présence et </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">tenir un discours </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">sur le thème des sports athlétiques[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ix]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">fait savoir </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">au dernier moment </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">qu</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">il est retenu par des </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">obligations. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Sadi Carnot </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">en </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">avait</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">fait de même 25 ans plus tôt mais avait eu la délicatesse d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">envoyer </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ses représentants.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Après le</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">repas</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">au cours d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">uquel d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">innombrables bouteilles de</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">très grand</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">s</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">crus</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">sont </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">servies[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">x]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">les joueurs </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">s</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">adonne</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">nt</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">au</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">tango, cette danse nouvellement ad</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">optée par </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">les Parisiens</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Le </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">lendemain, c</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">est au tour de l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ambassadeur Herrick d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">e recevoir tout ce beau monde dans sa </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">résidence d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">u 5 de</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">la rue François </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Premier[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">xi]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">à l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">occasion de la </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">traditionnelle </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">fête </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">u</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Washington</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">s </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Birthday</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">. Cette réception</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">est à son tour suivie d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">un </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">nouveau </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">dîner à </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">hôtel </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Elysée</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Palace sur les </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Champs</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Elysées[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">xii]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Le samedi 21</span><span style="color: black;">, la première des deux rencontres </span><span style="color: black;">parisienne</span><span style="color: black;">s</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">est programmée à 14h30 au vélodrome </span><span style="color: black;">du</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Parc des Princes, à Auteuil. </span><span style="color: black;">Annoncée à grand renfort d</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">articles </span><span style="color: black;">dans la</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">presse[</span><span style="color: black;">xiii]</span><span style="color: black;">, elle attire une </span><span style="color: black;">masse considérable de curieux</span><span style="color: black;">, impatients de voir en pratique </span><span style="color: black;">ce</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">sport</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">que </span><span style="color: black;">l</span><span style="color: black;">e</span><span style="color: black;">s journalistes</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">tentent </span><span style="color: black;">difficilement </span><span style="color: black;">de </span><span style="color: black;">décri</span><span style="color: black;">re</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">dans leurs colonnes</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et puis cet athlète indien, bien sûr</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">H</span><span style="color: black;">élà</span><span style="color: black;">s, la pluie ne </span><span style="color: black;">permet pas de jouer</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">!</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Harry Sparrow, le secrétaire de la tournée</span><span style="color: black;">,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">est chargé d</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">annoncer la mauvaise </span><span style="color: black;">nouvelle[</span><span style="color: black;">xiv]</span><span style="color: black;">. </span><span style="color: black;">Mais q</span><span style="color: black;">u</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">à cela ne tienne, </span><span style="color: black;">il reste encore la journée</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">du dimanche. N</span><span style="color: black;">os touri</span><span style="color: black;">stes </span><span style="color: black;">vaquent </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">donc </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">à leurs si plaisantes occupations</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">:</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">certains se livrent au shopping</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">e</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">t</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">retournent au théâtre</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">autres vont </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">au Grand Palais et font une halte à la </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">«</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">semaine de l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">agriculture de Paris</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">»[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">xv]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">McGraw </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et Comiskey ne s</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">inquiètent pas outre mesure car les prévisions météorolo</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">giques sont plutôt </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">optimistes</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">;</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">par ailleurs, le ciel s</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">éclaircit en soi</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">rée[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">xvi]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Allons, demain est un autre jour.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Photo</span><span style="color: black;">graphie</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">représentant un joueur </span><span style="color: black;">gaucher </span><span style="color: black;">des White Sox </span><span style="color: black;">à la batte (agen</span><span style="color: black;">ce Rol). Selon les </span><span style="color: black;">informations </span><span style="color: black;">détenues par</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">la BNF, </span><span style="color: black;">elle aurait été prise à la Faisander</span><span style="color: black;">ie, ce qui pose problème dans </span><span style="color: black;">la</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">mesure</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">où le match n</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">est pas censé même avoi</span><span style="color: black;">r commencé (</span><span style="color: black;">or</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">la présence de l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">arbitre sur le </span><span style="color: black;">cliché ne laisse aucune place au doute).</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">S</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">agit</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">il plutôt d</span><span style="color: black;">u vélodrome du Parc des Princes</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">?</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Vue du</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Parc des Princes </span><span style="color: black;">à </span><span style="color: black;">l'occasion du match France</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">Galles, </span><span style="color: black;">le</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">27 février 1913</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">(agence Rol)</span><span style="color: black;">.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">A la sortie de la messe à laquelle ils </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ass</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">istent</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">le dimanche matin </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pour le</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">s</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">uns à </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">église</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">la </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Madeleine</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, pour le</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">s</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">autres à </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">la cathédrale </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Notre</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Dame</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de Paris</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">nos </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">missionnaires du baseball</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ne </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">se font plus guère d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">illusion</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">s</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">:</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">il pleut encore et l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">espoir</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">une amélioration </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">est </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">quasi </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">nul</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">De toute </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">façon, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">avec tout ce qui </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">est tombé ces derniers jours, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">le sol est</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">total</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ement détrempé</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">A</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">u</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ssi,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">e </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">complexe</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de la F</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">aisanderie</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">à Saint</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Cloud</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, siège du Stade Français</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">a beau </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">groui</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ll</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">e</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">r</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de spectateurs</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">dès après midi</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, dont </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">une bonne part </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">entend</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">bien utiliser </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">les</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">billet</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">s</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pris pour le match de la veille</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">à </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Paris</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">McGraw et Comiskey doivent </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">se rendre</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">à l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">évidence</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">:</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">il n</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">est pas question de risquer </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">a </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">blessure d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">un joueur à quelques semaines de la reprise du championnat</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">outre</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Atlantique[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">xvii]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, par </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">conséquent</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">la rencontre </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ne peut pas avoir</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">lieu</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Le </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">play</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ball </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">est</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">prévu pour 14h30 mais</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">à quoi bon </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">attendre</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">?</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">L</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">e </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">rain</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">out est pro</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">noncé dès 13h</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, au grand regret de l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ambassadeur Herrick, qui </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">devait </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">lancer la premiè</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">re balle[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">xviii]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">McGraw </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">fulmine</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, qui constate que le nombre de spectateurs </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pour ce </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">match </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">dépasse de loin</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">tout ce qui a pu être enregistré depuis le début de la tournée</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">mondiale</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Du </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">côté des amateurs de baseball, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">des lycéens, des joueurs de</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">s</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">clubs</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de la région</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">des dirigean</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">t</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">s</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/04/a-la-recherche-de-la-commission.html">USFSA</a>, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">la déception est de taille.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Les Chicago White Sox à la Faisanderie de Saint-Cloud (agence Rol).</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Les New York Giants à la Faisanderie de Saint-Cloud (agence Rol).</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Que faire</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">jusqu</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">au lendemain</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">?</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">La réponse à cette question est vite trouvée. Bravant la pluie, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">plusieurs joueurs font un</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">e promenade dans le bois de Bou</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">logne</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">jusqu</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">à l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">heure du dîner. Désireux </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de profiter au max</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">imum des trésors de la ville</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, beaucoup retournent </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">au </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Luxembourg</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">voir Mona </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Lisa </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">au Louvre, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ou vo</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">nt rendre visite à la statue équestre de George Washington, celle</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">là mêm</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">e qui </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">avait été dévoilée sur la place d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Iéna </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">le 3 juillet </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">1900</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pendant l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">exposition universelle</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">D</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">autres </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">enfin</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, nettement plus courageux</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ret</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">iennent</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">la proposition </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">du </span><a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/07/le-racing-club-de-france.html"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Docteur</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/07/le-racing-club-de-france.html">Valadier</a>[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">xix]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">se rendent à </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">aérodrome de Port</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">A</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">v</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">iation </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">à Viry</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Châtillon[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">xx]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, pour y assister </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">à un match aérien entre deux </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">«</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">faucheurs de marguerites</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">»[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">xxi]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">nommés </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Gustave </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Hamel et </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Roland Garros.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Nous pouvons supposer </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">qu</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Emile</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/11/les-premiers-parrains-dubonnet-1913.html">Dubonnet</a> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">n</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">est pas </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">tout</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">à</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">fait </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">é</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">tranger </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">à la venue des joueurs de baseball sur le terrain </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">aviation.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Thorpe à la Faisanderie de Saint-Cloud (agence Rol).</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">10h du matin, lundi. L</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">e train </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">à bord duquel sont montés</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">tous le</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">s</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">major leaguers</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">s</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ébranle</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">en </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">direction de Calais</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Là</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">bas</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, le Consul Mil</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ner vient les saluer et leur souhaiter une bonne fin de </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">voyage</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ainsi qu</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">une</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">bonne traversée j</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">usqu</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">à Douvres</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Pour l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">heure, la prochaine </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et dernière </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">étape </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">avant New York </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">est </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Angleterre</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Peut</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">être les </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Londoniens</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">auront</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ils plus de chance</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">que </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">e</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">s </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Parisien</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">s </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[i]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Poincare To Honor Giants In Paris</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">in</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">The New York Times, 19 févrrier 1914.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[ii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Tourists In Paris</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">in </span><span style="color: black;">Sporting Life 21 février 1914, p. 7</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[iii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Paris To Welcome World</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">s Tourists</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">, in The Times Dispatch, 17 février 1914, p. </span><span style="color: black;">8.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[iv]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">John McGraw s</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">en amuse beaucoup, étant lui</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">m</span><span style="color: black;">ême parfois surnommé le </span><span style="color: black;">petit </span><span style="color: black;">N</span><span style="color: black;">a</span><span style="color: black;">poleon du baseball</span><span style="color: black;">. Il </span><span style="color: black;">déclare</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">ainsi </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><i>Moi aussi, j</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>’</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>ai rencontré le duc de Wellington, sauf que son nom était Connie M</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>a</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>ck </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>et non Arthur Wellesley</i></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">(</span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">J. McGraw Visits </span><span style="color: black;">Tomb Of Napoleon</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">, in The Washington Herald, 20 février 1914</span><span style="color: black;">, p. 10</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Globe Trotters Do Paris In High Style</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">, in </span><span style="color: black;">The Salt</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Lake Tribunes, 20 février 1914, p. 6)</span><span style="color: black;">. Pour un</span><span style="color: black;">e raison qui échappe à tous les spécialistes</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">de la question</span><span style="color: black;">, Ted </span><span style="color: black;">Sullivan consacre plus de 10 pages de son récit de la tournée à l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">histoire de </span><span style="color: black;">France</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et à Napoléon tout particu</span><span style="color: black;">lièrement.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[v]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Giants </span><span style="color: black;">–</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">White </span><span style="color: black;">Sox Reach Gay Paree</span><span style="color: black;">”</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">, in</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">The Washington Herald, 18 février 1914, p. </span><span style="color: black;">10.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[vi]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">American To Build Million Dollar House In </span><span style="color: black;">France</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">, in The San Francisco Call, </span><span style="color: black;">16 octobre 1904, p. 20.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Kessler </span><span style="color: black;">se </span><span style="color: black;">trouve</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">à bord d</span><span style="color: black;">u Lusitania lorsque celui</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">ci est</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">coulé</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">par un sous</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">marin al</span><span style="color: black;">lemand</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">mais </span><span style="color: black;">réchappe</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">à la catastrophe</span><span style="color: black;">. Il </span><span style="color: black;">meurt en 1920 à Paris.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[vii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">American Teams Honored</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">, in The Ogden Standard, 19 février 1914, p. </span><span style="color: black;">6 ; </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Baseball </span><span style="color: black;">Tourists </span><span style="color: black;">Take </span><span style="color: black;">In Paris</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">in</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">The New York Times, 20 février 1914.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[viii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Héritie</span><span style="color: black;">r à 15 ans de la fortune de son père tirée de l’exploitation des chemins de fer aux Etats</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">Unis, il s’installe </span><span style="color: black;">rapidement en France. Vers 1910, à Maisons</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">Laffitte, il investit dans le développement des activités hippiques. Il a 39 </span><span style="color: black;">ans en 1914.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[ix]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">French President To Honor Touring Athletes</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">, in The Washington Times, 19 février 1914, p. </span><span style="color: black;">10.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[x]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Social Attentions In Paris</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">, in Sporting Life, 28 février 1914.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[xi]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Ce n</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">est qu</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">en 1948 que les USA feront l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">acquisition de l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">hôtel particuli</span><span style="color: black;">e</span><span style="color: black;">r</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">construit par</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Edmond de Rothschild au 41, </span><span style="color: black;">rue du faubourg Saint Honoré.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[xii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Baseball Fever Has Seized Paris</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">, in The New York Times, 22 février 1914.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[xiii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Voir toute une série d</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">articles parus </span><span style="color: black;">les 20, 21 et 22 février 1914</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">dans </span><span style="color: black;">L</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">Humanité (20 février 1914, p. 5), </span><span style="color: black;">Le Rappel, </span><span style="color: black;">Le Temps</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">(</span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Le base</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">ball</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">, paru le 21 février 1914, p. 5)</span><span style="color: black;">, Le Gaulois</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">(</span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Les deux équipes américaines matcheront </span><span style="color: black;">aujourd</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">hui</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">, paru le 22 février 1914, p. 4)</span><span style="color: black;">, Le Figaro</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Un article du</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Washington Herald </span><span style="color: black;">(</span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Rain Checks For All Paris </span><span style="color: black;">Fans</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">paru le </span><span style="color: black;">22 février 1914, p. 4</span><span style="color: black;">) </span><span style="color: black;">décrit la couverture médiatique</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">:</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><i>All the papers carried columns of stuff, numerous </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>photographs and </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>diagrams</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>explaining the fine point of the game to the proletariat</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>. Reporters and photographers of both the Paris and London </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>papers f</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>ollow the players like hardened creditors. Ted Sullivan gives out an interview every few seconds and every</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>one is different</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[xiv]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Rain Checks For All Paris Fans</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">op. cit</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[xv]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Devenue </span><span style="color: black;">par la suite</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">le</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">salon de l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">agriculture</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[xvi]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Rain For World Tourists</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">, in The New York Times, 22 février 1914.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[xvii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Peut</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">êtr</span><span style="color: black;">e</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">ont</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">ils en tête la mésaventure de </span><span style="color: black;">Williamson, qui s</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">était blessé à Paris en 1889 et qui avait d</span><span style="color: black;">û mettre un </span><span style="color: black;">terme à sa carrière</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">?</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[xviii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Giants A</span><span style="color: black;">nd White Sox</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">To Play At Paris</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">, in Medford Mail Tribune, 17 février 1914, p. </span><span style="color: black;">3.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[xix]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Tourists Unable To Play In Paris</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">, in The New York Times, 23 février 1914.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[xx]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Plus connu sous le nom d</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">aérodrome de Juvisy, bien qu</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">il ne soit pas sur cette commune mais proche de la gare de </span><span style="color: black;">Juvisy</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">sur</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">Orge, il s</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">agit du p</span><span style="color: black;">r</span><span style="color: black;">emier aérodrome organisé au monde</span><span style="color: black;">, qui accueille un tr</span><span style="color: black;">ès grand no</span><span style="color: black;">m</span><span style="color: black;">bre de compétitions</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">en tous genres (</span><span style="color: black;">par exemple</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">:</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">10 jours auparavant, le 12 février 1914, Jean Ors </span><span style="color: black;">y </span><span style="color: black;">réussissait le premier saut en parachute</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">de l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">histoire</span><span style="color: black;">)</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Il constitue en soi une attraction digne d</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">intérêt.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[xxi]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">La compétition, dotée d</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">un prix </span><span style="color: black;">conséquent </span><span style="color: black;">de 25.000 francs, </span><span style="color: black;">débute à 15h et </span><span style="color: black;">consiste</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">en deux manches de </span><span style="color: black;">30 km </span><span style="color: black;">(soit 15 tours de piste) et un tour de piste</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">parcouru</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">à la plus grande vitesse possible.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Après ces épreuves, </span><span style="color: black;">Hamel et </span><span style="color: black;">Garros exécutent différents vols renversés et bouclés.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Garamond,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 9.96pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Samedi 14 février, 9h30 du matin, gare de Nice</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">:</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Avant même de descendre du train de nuit dans </span><span style="color: black;">lequel ils sont montés à Milan</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">la veille</span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">l</span><span style="color: black;">es touristes </span><span style="color: black;">ont compris deux choses</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">: la première c’est </span><span style="color: black;">qu’ils arrivent dans une ville où les festivités </span><span style="color: black;">du carnaval battent leur plein ; la seconde c’est que </span><span style="color: black;">Monaco et ses casinos ne sont qu’à quelques minutes en train.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Oui, bien que <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/03/le-retour-de-buffalo-bill.html">Ted Sullivan</a> ne le </span><span style="color: black;">mentionne absolument pas dans son «</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">History of World’s tour</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»[</span><span style="color: black;">i]</span><span style="color: black;">, sur le chemin entre Rome et </span><span style="color: black;">Paris, les équipes des </span><span style="color: black;">Chica</span><span style="color: black;">go White Sox et des New York Giants</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">s’arrêtent bel et bien sur la Côte d'Azur et, </span><span style="color: black;">contrairement à ce qui avait été le cas 25 ans plus tôt et puisque la météo le permet, elles vont </span><span style="color: black;">pouvoir y jouer. Pas de doute, cette étape du second <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2014/03/la-tournee-mondiale-des-chicago-white.html">tour du monde</a> s’annonce intéressante à bien des</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">égards</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">L’</span><span style="color: black;">emploi du temps collectif </span><span style="color: black;">n’</span><span style="color: black;">est </span><span style="color: black;">pas des </span><span style="color: black;">plus </span><span style="color: black;">clair</span><span style="color: black;">s</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">pour les</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">journées de samedi et de dimanche</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">ou </span><span style="color: black;">en tous cas les sources ne permettent pas de s’en faire une idée très précise</span><span style="color: black;">. </span><span style="color: black;">Ce qui </span><span style="color: black;">est</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">certain</span><span style="color: black;">, en </span><span style="color: black;">revanche</span><span style="color: black;">,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">c’est que le groupe se divise sel</span><span style="color: black;">on les centres d’intérêts respectifs des uns et des autres. </span><span style="color: black;">Certains visitent la </span><span style="color: black;">cité</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et ses environs, d’autres participent au</span><span style="color: black;">x différentes activités du</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">carnaval, </span><span style="color: black;">d’autres enfin vont tenter leur chance au casino. </span><span style="color: black;">Vêtus de leurs uniformes de baseball, la </span><span style="color: black;">plupart des</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">joueurs pren</span><span style="color: black;">ne</span><span style="color: black;">nt part dans les rues niçoises à une gigantesque bataille de fleurs et de confettis[</span><span style="color: black;">ii]</span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">installés dans des landaus arborant </span><span style="color: black;">le tricolore et la bannière étoilée[</span><span style="color: black;">iii] </span><span style="color: black;">et sont accueillis </span><span style="color: black;">partout où ils </span><span style="color: black;">passent jusque fort tard dans la nuit</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">au cri</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">de «</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><i>les Américains</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>!</i></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»[</span><span style="color: black;">iv]</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Le lendemain</span><span style="color: black;">, on retrouve une </span><span style="color: black;">vingtaine d’entre eux à une table de roulette monégasque. Malchanceux, John McGraw y perd près </span><span style="color: black;">de 500 dollars. Assez peu fier</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">de lui</span><span style="color: black;">, il prétendra par la suite s’être contenté de visiter la vi</span><span style="color: black;">lle. </span><span style="color: black;">Herman Schaefer, surnommé «</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Germany</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">» en raison de ses origines, </span><span style="color: black;">attire tous les regards </span><span style="color: black;">sur lui </span><span style="color: black;">à </span><span style="color: black;">mesure que le bruit se r</span><span style="color: black;">épand dans le casino qu’il se</span><span style="color: black;">rai</span><span style="color: black;">t un prince allemand. </span><span style="color: black;">Steve </span><span style="color: black;">Evans revient </span><span style="color: black;">avec 250 dollars de plus qu’à son arrivée.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Bref, les t</span><span style="color: black;">ouristes s’amusent</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">comme des petits fous</span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">se </span><span style="color: black;">font remarquer </span><span style="color: black;">et s’attirent bien des sympathies </span><span style="color: black;">durant plus de deux jours.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">A telle enseigne que, l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">e lundi 16, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">c’est une</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">foule </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">très </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">nombreuse </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de Français et </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">d’étrangers </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">séjour</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">nant sur la </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Riviera</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">qui </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">se </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">rassemble</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">dès la sortie de l’hôtel</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">où les équipes séjournent</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">dans la </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ferme intention de</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ne rien manquer </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">du spectacle</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">. Même à 20 francs la place, les </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">billets</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">part</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ent</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">comme des petits pains</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et plus de 5.000 spectateurs </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">–</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">dont un </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">très </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">grand nombre de femmes </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">é</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">légantes </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">se bousculent au bord du terrain de football aménagé par la municipalité pour accueillir </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">la démonstration[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">v]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">McGraw relève</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">que l’intérêt du public français est </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">indéniablement </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">bien plus </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">prononcé encore que celui rencontré aux Philippines[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">vi]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Il faut bien reconnaître que tout a été entrepris </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pour attirer un maximum de monde, jusqu’à la mise au point d’un programme d’avant</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">match</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">des </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">plus originaux</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">: Les spectateurs sont tout d’abord gratifiés des acrobaties aériennes réalisées dans le </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ciel bleu niço</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">is par l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’appareil de l’aviateur Lacrouse</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">«</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Germany</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">»</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Schaefer</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, le clown de la troupe,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">leur offre un numéro de funambule le long de la ligne de foul ball. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Puis, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">il leur est donné</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">d’admirer </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de près le phénomène mondial dont on a tant parlé dans la presse et</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">le milieu sportif</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">: l’Indien, <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/04/mais-quest-ce-que-le-baseball.html">Jim </a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/04/mais-quest-ce-que-le-baseball.html">Thorpe</a>, l’homme qui a été contraint de rendre ses deux médailles d’or remportées aux Jeux de </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Stockholm</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, se livre à une</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">magistrale démonstration de lancer de disque et de poids[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">vii]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Enfin, l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">e </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Consul des Etats</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Unis, William De</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">laney Hunter, lance la première balle</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">sous les applaudissements </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">la foule</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Pour ce qui est du match, cela se présente un peu différemment. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">En raison du mauvais temps </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">rencontré en Italie, les équipes n’ont pas joué depuis Le Caire et ne se sont évidemment pas </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">entraînées non plus. Il faut </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">donc </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">s’attendre à ce que les lanceurs ne soient pas tout</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">à</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">fait au </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">mieux </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de leur forme</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">. Et le fait </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">est </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">qu’i</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ls </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">rencontrent</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">quelques difficultés</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">: d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ans la </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">seule </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">quatrième manche, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">les Giants marque</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">nt 6 points et les White Sox 4.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">A la sixiè</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">me manche, Schaefer</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">encore lui</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">! </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">déclenche l’hilarité </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">générale</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">en se présentant à la batte </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">affublé</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">d’un faux nez</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">d’une fau</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">sse </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">moustache</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">grise et annonçant à la </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">cantonade</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">:</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">«</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>Je me fais vieux</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">»[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">viii]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Si les Français ne saisissent </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">apparemment </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pas toutes les subtilités du jeu</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">(à part peut</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">être quelques</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">uns parmi ceux ayant assisté </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">aux matchs joués à Villefranche</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">sur</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Mer en <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/11/aye-aye-captain.html">novembre </a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/11/aye-aye-captain.html">1913</a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">?)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">au moins laissent</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ils </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">éclater leur </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">enthousiasme à chaque longue frappe au champ extérieur et </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">apprécient</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ils la bonne humeur et la </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">décontraction des joueurs.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Au bout du compte, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Chicago</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, home team,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">remporte la partie </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">s</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ur le score </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">10 à 7</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, dépassant les Giants qui ont pourtant compté jusqu’à 3 points d’avance</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">A moins que ce </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ne soit plutôt 10 à 9, comme l’indique John McGraw quelques jours plus tard[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ix]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">? C’est égal, qui se </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">soucie vraiment du score</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Les New York Giants à Nice, le 16
février 1914.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">De gauche à droite : John
McGraw, Hans Lobert, Mike Donlin, Lee Magee, Larry Doyle, Ivy Wingo, Bunny
Hearne, George Wiltse, Mickey Doolan, Urban Faber, Fred Merkle, Jim Thorpe et
l’arbitre Bill Klem.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Les tourist</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">e</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">s quittent la Côte d’Azur dès le </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">lendemain, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">mardi 17</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">en direction de Paris, avec le </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">mince espoir d’y jouer à l’occasion de</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">la fête de l’anniversaire de Washington. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">E</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">tant censés </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">embarquer à bord du Lusitania le 28 février et la météo pour Paris et Londres </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">étant d’ores et déjà </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">annoncée comme exécrable, beaucoup considèrent </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">en effet </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">le</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">game</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de Nice</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">comme </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">étant fort </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">vraisem</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">b</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ablement le dernier de </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">cette longue</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">tournée</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">mondiale[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">x]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Sur le plan spor</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">tif, culturel et </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">même économique, cette démonstration </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">des major le</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">aguers</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">est un franc succès. Fait</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">elle naître des </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">vocations parmi les jeunes niçois</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">? </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Nous n’en avons pas la certitude mais c</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’est bien probable</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">dans la mesure où de nombreux Américains séjournent sur la Côte d’Azur, il n’est pas exclu que des </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">équipes se</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">soient formées immédiatement après le passage des professionnels</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, faisant de Nice l’un </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">des berceaux de la pratique de ce sport en France.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[i]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Ted Sullivan / (M.A. Donohue), première édition 1914. </span><span style="color: black;">En réalité et cela peut justifier l’absence de mention, Ted </span><span style="color: black;">Sullivan accompagne Charles Comiskey, malade, et son épouse directement à Paris</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">sans s’arrêter à Nice (lire à ce sujet </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Comiskey Ill Again</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">», in The New York Times, 14 février 1914)</span><span style="color: black;">. </span><span style="color: black;">Il est possible de </span><span style="color: black;">lire</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">l’intégralité du texte </span><span style="color: black;">de Sullivan </span><span style="color: black;">en ligne</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">à l’adresse suivante</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">:</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://international.loc.gov/service/gdc/scd0001/2010/2010_01/20100811009hi/20100811009hi.pdf"><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">http://in</span><span style="color: blue;">ternational.loc.gov/service/gdc/scd0001/2010/2010_01/20100811009hi/20100811009hi.pdf</span></a><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[ii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Tout comme leurs prédécesseurs</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et Spalding</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">l’avaient fait en 1889.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[iii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Baseball Tourists In Nice Carnival</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">», </span><span style="color: black;">in The New York Times, 16 février 1914.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[iv]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">French Turns Out</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">To See Giants Play</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">», in The New York Times, 17 février 1914.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[v]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Il ne m’a pas été possible d’identifier de quel terrain il s’agissait.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[vi]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Baseball Tourists In Nice Carnival</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">op. cit.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[vii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Baseball in France</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">», </span><span style="color: black;">in Boston Evening Transcript,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">17 février 19</span><span style="color: black;">14, p. 20</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[viii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">McGraw Tells Of Giants’ Visit To Rome And Nice</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">», </span><span style="color: black;">in The New York Times, 1er mars 1914.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[ix]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">McGraw dans l’article du New York Times du 1</span> <span style="color: black;">er</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">mars 1914 cité ci</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">dessus.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[x]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Giants And Sox Homewood Bound</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">», in The Times Dispatch, 15 février 1914, p.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">7.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Garamond,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 9.96pt;"></span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5327037030152747570.post-56876074565980811522014-03-02T20:35:00.000+01:002014-03-04T11:30:15.341+01:00La tournée mondiale des Chicago White Sox et des New York Giants de 1913-1914<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">L’année 1914, porteuse de toutes les espérances pour le développement du baseball, s’annonce plus </span><span style="color: black;">belle encore que <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/12/bilan-de-la-saison-1913.html">1913</a> pourtant déjà si riche en événements. Tout semble </span><span style="color: black;">concorder pour une </span><span style="color: black;">implantation durable du baseball, non seulement en France mais aussi, progressivement, en Europe. </span><span style="color: black;">Alors qu’en janvier John <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/05/lamerican-paris-team.html">Reed</a>, l’aventurier de l’American Paris Team, chevauche aux côtés de </span><span style="color: black;">Pancho Villa</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">au Mexique[</span><span style="color: black;">i]</span><span style="color: black;">, dont il couvre la ré</span><span style="color: black;">volution pour le </span><span style="color: black;"><i>Metropolitan Magazine</i></span><span style="color: black;">, son ami Max </span><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/05/lamerican-paris-team.html">Eastman</a>, quant à lui, est retourné à ses occupations politiques habituelles et à </span><span style="color: black;"><i>The Masses</i></span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Au même </span><span style="color: black;">moment, de retour à New York, Spalding annonce que tous les Américains de France mais aussi un </span><span style="color: black;">grand no</span><span style="color: black;">mbre de parisiens attendent avec une grande impatience le passage des Giants et des White </span><span style="color: black;">Sox[</span><span style="color: black;">ii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">dans la capitale</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">De quoi pourrait</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">on rêver</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">de mieux pour lancer la saison ?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Près de 25 ans après la <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/01/le-tour-du-monde-en-deux-fois-quatre.html">glorieuse expédition</a> d’A. G. Spalding,
l’idée d’une tournée mondiale a en effet refait surface et des préparatifs en
ce sens sont concrètement lancés dès le début de l’année 1913. En remplacement
de <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/09/les-premiers-parrains-spalding.html">Spalding</a>, trop accaparé par ses différentes affaires, il ne faut pas moins
de deux hommes pour prendre le relais : ce seront <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/03/un-geant-parmi-les-geants.html">John McGraw</a>, le très
inspiré manager des New York Giants, et Charles Comiskey, le propriétaire de la
franchise des Chicago White Sox. Ensemble et avec la bénédiction du nouveau Président
des Etats-Unis Woodrow Wilson – qui appelle de ses vœux la création d’une ligue
internationale[iii]</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> -, du
Secrétaire d’Etat[iv]</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> et de
la National Baseball Commission, ils se fixent comme objectif de faire de cette
tournée pour leurs équipes </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">« une
marche triomphante à travers des pays étrangers, pour le simple plaisir de
voyager et de montrer au monde quel jeu extraordinaire est le baseball</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> »[v].</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> En clair, contrairement à Spalding qui était parti en quelque sorte la fleur au
fusil en Australie et, de là, avait improvisé une circumnavigation, il est
d’emblée envisagé de parcourir la planète et totalement exclu de dégager de
quelconques bénéfices de cette entreprise. Comiskey, considéré comme l’un des
hommes les plus riches du baseball et pourtant réputé pour être particulièrement
dur dans la négociation du salaire de ses joueurs[vi]</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">,
s’engage à supporter toutes les pertes. L’annonce de ce projet est accueillie
avec beaucoup d’enthousiasme dans toute l’Amérique du nord[vii]</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Pour assurer les fonctions dévolues à Stanford Parry en 1888-89,
nous retrouvons celui-là même qui avait manqué le coche de la tournée de
Spalding et s’était mis en tête de convaincre Buffalo Bill d’emporter des
équipes de baseball avec lui lors de son tour d’Europe : l’imaginatif <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/01/yee-ha-buffalo-bill-la-rescousse.html">Ted Sullivan</a>, alors scout pour les Chicago White Sox. Sa mission, qui débute au
mois d’août 1913 (c’est-à-dire au retour d’Europe de Dick Bunnell envoyé encore
plus tôt en repérage[viii]), doit
le mener à travers chacun des pays visités avec deux mois d’avance sur le reste
des 65 personnes qui composent la troupe, afin d’y régler partout les
préparatifs. Selon le journal L’Humanité, la dépense journalière de ce petit
monde est en moyenne de 3.750 francs[ix],
autant dire une fortune pour l’époque.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Du côté des joueurs, c’est sans surprise que l’on constate
que la plupart des réguliers des Giants et des White Sox répondent présents à
l’appel. Il faut admettre que c’est une occasion unique à l’époque de visiter
le vaste monde. Mais à raison de seulement 15 noms dans chacune des équipes[x],
les places sont très chères et la lutte est sévère. <span lang="EN-US">Gagnent notamment leur billet : Sam
« Wahoo » Crawford, Urban « Red » Faber, Tristam Speaker,
Christy Mathewson, Buck Weaver, Germany Shaefer, Fred Merkle, Mike Donlin,
Lawrence Doyle et bien évidemment <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/03/le-roi-des-sports-le-sport-des-rois.html">Jim Thorpe</a>. </span>Parmi les heureux élus, nombreux
sont ceux qui choisissent de voyager avec leur épouse. C’est ainsi le cas de Crawford,
Doyle ou bien encore de Thorpe. Jim Callahan, le manager des White Sox, est quant
à lui accompagné de sa femme et de ses deux enfants. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">La tournée, lancée à Cincinnati le 18 octobre 1913 juste
après la fin des World Series, dure cinq mois et compte de très nombreuses
étapes mais, à bien y regarder, une fois passée l’Australie, le trajet suivi ne
s’écarte guère de celui de la tournée de 1888-89 : tout d’abord une grande
traversée pour rejoindre le Sud-ouest américain, puis Vancouver au Canada,
Tokyo, Kobe, Nagasaki et Yokohama au Japon, Shanghai en Chine, Hong Kong,
Manille aux Philippines, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Fremantle en
Australie, Colombo à Ceylan, Le Caire et ses pyramides, Alexandrie en Egypte,
Naples, Rome (et une entrevue avec le Pape !) en Italie, Nice et Paris
pour la France, puis l’Angleterre et enfin un retour à New York à bord du
Lusitania[xi] le 6 mars 1914. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A lire les récits de ce périple et les articles de presse,
on sent combien ces « touristes » ont pu prendre du plaisir à
traverser ces contrées. Mais au final, une fois le soufflet retombé, qu’est-il
resté de cette tournée ? Qu’a-t-elle apporté de plus au développement du
baseball local ? Bien peu de choses, en réalité. Alors que d’aucuns prévoyaient
des accueils délirants « <i>spécialement
au Japon, aux Philippines, en Australie et en France</i> »[xii], il faut bien reconnaître que les conditions météorologiques ont été assez déplorables
en Europe et n’ont pas permis d’atteindre tous les objectifs fixés. Le passage
en Irlande a ainsi été tout bonnement annulé et seuls trois pays du vieux continent ont eu le
privilège de voir passer les professionnels du baseball. De plus, à très court
terme, les événements politiques ont eu tôt fait d’y occulter ces insouciantes
démonstrations sportives, comme nous le constaterons prochainement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">- de
« <i>The Tour to End All Tours: The Story
of Major League Baseball's 1913-1914 World Tour</i> », de James E. Elfers,
paru en 2003 aux éditions University of Nebraska Press ;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">- de « <i>The Empire Strikes Out: How Baseball Sold US
Foreign Policy And Promoted The American Way Abroad </i>», de Robert Elias, paru
en 2010 aux editions The New Press.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.13333334028720856px;">[i]</span> <span lang="EN-US">« Wilson To Aid Baseball
Team »</span><span lang="EN-GB">, in The
New York Times, 17 </span><span lang="EN-US">juin</span><span lang="EN-GB"> 1913.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">[ii]</span></span></span> William Jennings Bryan donne des consignes aux consuls et corps diplomatiques
des pays traversés afin qu’ils facilitent le voyage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">[iii]</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"> « Giants And White Sox To Tour
World », in The New York Times, 2 février 1913.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">[iv]</span></span></span> Sa dureté lui sera d’ailleurs reprochée quelques années plus tard au moment du
scandale des World Series de 1919, qui mènera 8 de ses joueurs au ban.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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», in Poverty Bay Herald, 12 </span>février<span lang="EN-US"> 1913, p. 5 ; ou encore The Montreal Gazette du 12 </span>février<span lang="EN-US"> 1913.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">[vi]</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"> « Baseball Tour’s Director
Here », in The New York Times, 11 août 1913. </span>A son arrivée, Dick
Bunnel s’empresse de décrire aux journalistes l’enthousiasme avec lequel les
Français, et particulièrement les jeunes, se sont emparés du baseball.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">[vii]</span></span></span> L’Humanité, 20 février 1914, p. 5.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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To Tour World », in The New York Times, 12 février 1913 ; « Sox And
Giants On World’s Tour », in The New York Times, 27 juillet 1913.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">[ix]</span></span></span> Ce navire sera coulé le 7 mai 1915 par un sous-marin allemand. Cet événement
contribuera à l’entrée en guerre des Etats-Unis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Welcomed On Tour Of The World », in The Deseret News, 13 juin 1913.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">En décembre 1913, Charles Comiskey, propriétaire de l’équipe des Chicago White Sox, déclare</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">le </span><span style="color: black;">plus sérieusement du monde : </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><i>Dans une douzaine d’années, je serai peut</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>-</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>être manager</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>de l’équipe de baseball </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>d’une ligue internationale comprenant le Japon, la Chine, l’Angleterre, la France et la Russie</i></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»[</span><span style="color: black;">i]</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Six mois plus tôt, </span><span style="color: black;">c’est Ban Johnson, le président de l’American League, qui affirmait que «</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><i>le jeu va, dans les années à </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>venir, dev</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>enir l’un des rares sports réellement internationaux</i></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">[…] </span><span style="color: black;"><i>Le jeu est apprécié et joué à Cuba, au Japon, en </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>Chine, à Mexico, en Amérique du Sud, à Porto Rico, aux Philippines, en France, Australie, Suède, Allemagne et </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>même en Angleterre</i></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»[</span><span style="color: black;">ii]</span><span style="color: black;">. Pour ce qui conce</span><span style="color: black;">rne la Fran</span><span style="color: black;">ce, sa petite vingtaine d</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">équipes[</span><span style="color: black;">iii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et ses quelques </span><span style="color: black;">centaines de joueurs[</span><span style="color: black;">iv]</span><span style="color: black;">,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">c’est indéniablement aller un peu vite en besogne </span><span style="color: black;">que d</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">affirmer que le </span><span style="color: black;">baseball y est </span><span style="color: black;">joué et apprécié </span><span style="color: black;">mais, pour une première année de pratique véritablement structurée, </span><span style="color: black;">nous pouvons dire que le bilan est tout à fait honora</span><span style="color: black;">ble et laisse augurer d’un développement </span><span style="color: black;">extrêmement encourageant.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Récapitulons</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">ce qui nous est connu de cette saison,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">sur la base des registres fédéraux et des </span><span style="color: black;">informations</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">disponibles par ailleurs</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">dans la presse de part et d’autre de l’Atlantique</span><span style="color: black;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><u><span style="color: black;">C</span><span style="color: black;">hampionnat des jeunes</span></u><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">L</span><span style="color: black;">e tableau ci</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">ap</span><span style="color: black;">rès</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">appelle </span><span style="color: black;">plusieurs</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">remarques de notre part.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">La </span><span style="color: black;">première</span><span style="color: black;">, c</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">est que la première </span><span style="color: black;">partie du printemps semble avoir été consacrée à l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">apprentissage du jeu</span><span style="color: black;">, puisqu</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">il n</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">y a pas eu a </span><span style="color: black;">priori de matchs avant le 5 mai</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">La</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">deuxième</span><span style="color: black;">, c</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">est qu</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">il serait très étrange qu</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">il </span><span style="color: black;">y ait </span><span style="color: black;">eu </span><span style="color: black;">une coupure</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">entre le 22 mai et le 12 juin</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">il ma</span><span style="color: black;">nque probabl</span><span style="color: black;">ement des pièces à notre puzzle</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">L</span><span style="color: black;">a </span><span style="color: black;">tr</span><span style="color: black;">oisième enfin</span><span style="color: black;">,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">c</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">est </span><span style="color: black;">que <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/04/la-all-paris-league-3eme-partie-la.html">l</a></span><a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/04/la-all-paris-league-3eme-partie-la.html"><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">équipe </span><span style="color: black;">constituée par </span><span style="color: black;">le jockey </span></a><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/04/la-all-paris-league-3eme-partie-la.html">Tod Sloan</a> à Maisons</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">Laffitte</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">n</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">y </span><span style="color: black;">apparaî</span><span style="color: black;">t </span><span style="color: black;">étonnamment</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">pas</span><span style="color: black;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Lors de l’Opening Day, la première balle </span><span style="color: black;">est</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">lancée par le Co</span><span style="color: black;">nsul Général des Etats</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">Unis, </span><span style="color: black;">le </span><span style="color: black;">capitaine </span><span style="color: black;">Frank H. </span><span style="color: black;">Mason[</span><span style="color: black;">v]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">âgé de 75 ans</span><span style="color: black;">, preuve s’il en est de tout l’intérêt qui est porté à cette </span><span style="color: black;">activité par la communauté Américaine. Selon <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/04/burgess-et-lassociation-de-base-ball-du.html">William H. Burgess</a>[</span><span style="color: black;">vi]</span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">chaque match de la saison </span><span style="color: black;">donne</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">lieu à de grands rassemblements de public culminant à 4.000 spectateurs. En tout, le <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/07/le-racing-club-de-france.html">Racing </a></span><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/07/le-racing-club-de-france.html">Club de France</a> et l’<a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/05/lamerican-paris-team.html">American Paris Team</a> s</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">affront</span><span style="color: black;">ent</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">pas moins de 1</span><span style="color: black;">0 fois entre le 13</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">avril et le 28 </span><span style="color: black;">septembre, la dernière </span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">notam</span><span style="color: black;">ment </span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">tourn</span><span style="color: black;">ant</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">à l’avantage du RCF[</span><span style="color: black;">vii]</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">L</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">équipe de </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Français</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">qui </span><span style="color: black;">bat celle des </span><span style="color: black;">étudiants </span><span style="color: black;">Américains</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et démontre </span><span style="color: black;">par </span><span style="color: black;">là</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">même </span><span style="color: black;">l</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">étendue de ses progrès en si peu de </span><span style="color: black;">temps</span><span style="color: black;">,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">c</span><span style="color: black;">ela semble pres</span><span style="color: black;">q</span><span style="color: black;">u</span><span style="color: black;">e trop </span><span style="color: black;">beau pour être vrai.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">N</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">e perdons pas de vue</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">enfin </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">que l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">e Racing Club de </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">France</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">American Paris Team ont </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">également </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">profité des beaux jours pour aller faire </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">des</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">mini</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">tournée</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">s</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">exhibition en <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/08/la-tournee-promotionnelle-en-normandie.html">Normandie </a>et en </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/07/london-calling.html">Angleterre</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Rétrospectivement, nous ne demandons </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">évidemment </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">qu’à croire à cet engouement, à cette </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">soudaine mode, à cette théorie selon laquelle le destin quasi divin du baseball est de sauver le </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">monde et que la conquête de la France est la garantie de la réussite de ce projet. M</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ais à vrai dire, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">bien des questions se posent avant de pouvoir adhérer pleinement à la chose</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">: Quels sont, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">concrètement, les moyens mis en place pour recruter, entraîner, former, installer dans la durée</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">? </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Combien de jeunes</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">joueurs non américains sont</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ils i</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">mpliqués</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">? Spalding, Roosevelt, Burgess, Muhr </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et Messerly</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">se sont certainement rencontrés mais ont</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ils tous coordonné leurs efforts</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">? Quels rôles </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">exacts ont joué l’<a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/03/messerly-et-lunion-francaise-de-base.html">Union Française de Base Ball</a>, le <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/04/muhr-et-le-comite-de-paris.html">Comité de Paris</a> et </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">l’<a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/04/burgess-et-lassociation-de-base-ball-du.html">Association de Base Ball du </a></span><a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/04/burgess-et-lassociation-de-base-ball-du.html"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Lycée Con</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">dorcet</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">? Toutes leurs actions procèdent</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">elles d’un plan défini par Spalding</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">? Cela relève </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">du probable tant son autorité est importante, mais </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">rien ne permet </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">toutefois </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de l’affirmer avec </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">certitude. Il est </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">cependant</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">indiscut</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">abl</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">e</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">que le baseball </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">s</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">est</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">soudainement</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">développé</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et qu’en </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">l’espace de peu de temps, les clubs de baseball de la région Parisienne</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ont pris de l’envergure, avec à </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">leur pointe, le Racing Club de France, l’American Paris Team, le Spalding Athletic Club, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">les clubs </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">du lycée Condorcet </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et de l’Ecole Pascal.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Si </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">les années 1912</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">1913 </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ont été</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">celles de la mise en place</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">un cadre</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">efficace</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">1914</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">devrait être à n</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">en pas </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">douter</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">une année exceptionnelle.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">[i]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">«</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Comiskey Plans A World League », </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">in The Milford Mail, 11 </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">décembre</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">1913, p. 2.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[ii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Will Be International Sport</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">», in The Ogden Standard, 29 </span><span style="color: black;">juillet</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">1913, </span><span style="color: black;">City Edition de 16h, </span><span style="color: black;">p. </span><span style="color: black;">2.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[iii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Ball Teams Tour France by Motor</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">», in </span><span style="color: black;">The Sun, 17 août 1913, section Sporting and Automobiles, p. 3 ; </span></span><span style="color: black;">voir aussi </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> Baseball In France</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">», in The Bennington Evening Banner, 1er août 1913, p. 4, où l'on apprend que plusieurs clubs sportifs de toute la France demandent des informations et auraient l'intention de constituer une équipe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[iv]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Selon</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Spalding </span><span style="color: black;">lui</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">même</span><span style="color: black;">. Cf. «</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Baseball in France</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">», in The Washington Times, 10 </span><span style="color: black;">janvier</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">1914, p.12.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[v]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Opening Game In Paris », in Honolulu Star</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">Bulletin, 28 mai 1913, 2:30 Edit</span><span style="color: black;">ion, p. 7.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[vi]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Baseball Games In France</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">», op. </span><span style="color: black;">cit. </span><span style="color: black;">Voir</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">également</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Many </span><span style="color: black;">Ball </span><span style="color: black;">Clubs Playing </span><span style="color: black;">In France</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">op. cit.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Soldat</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">aux brillants états de service</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">bardé de décorations tout autant que de cicatrices[</span><span style="color: black;">i]</span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">officier </span><span style="color: black;">ambitieux </span><span style="color: black;">proche de ses hommes</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et soutenu par le duc d’Aumale</span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">ami personnel de Gambetta et de </span><span style="color: black;">Clémenceau qui en fait un </span><span style="color: black;">radical </span><span style="color: black;">Ministre de la Guerre</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">dans le gouvernement</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Freycinet</span><span style="color: black;">, doté d’un </span><span style="color: black;">charisme remarquable, capable dans cette France aux courants politiques </span><span style="color: black;">fort </span><span style="color: black;">complexes de </span><span style="color: black;">rallier </span><span style="color: black;">sous sa bannière</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">avec pour seul programme </span><span style="color: black;">une réforme constitutionnelle et </span><span style="color: black;">la revanc</span><span style="color: black;">he contre </span><span style="color: black;">l’Allemagne</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">une troupe hétéroclite</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">de patriotes </span><span style="color: black;">mécontents</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">de la politique anticléricale</span><span style="color: black;">,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">de </span><span style="color: black;">l’expansion coloniale et surtout des intrigues parlementaires, </span><span style="color: black;">comprenant </span><span style="color: black;">aussi bien d</span><span style="color: black;">es partisans de </span><span style="color: black;">l’extrême gauche que ceux d</span><span style="color: black;">’une</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">droite dure ou b</span><span style="color: black;">ien encore les bonapartistes</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">ou certains royalistes, </span><span style="color: black;">le général Boulanger est incontestablement un personnage de </span><span style="color: black;">la fin du</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">XIXème siècle.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Mis à la retraite</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">anticip</span><span style="color: black;">ée</span><span style="color: black;">, il </span><span style="color: black;">en profite pour se</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">présente</span><span style="color: black;">r</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">aux élections </span><span style="color: black;">en 1889 </span><span style="color: black;">et </span><span style="color: black;">est é</span><span style="color: black;">lu </span><span style="color: black;">triomphalement dans </span><span style="color: black;">plusieurs départements</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">dont Paris, le 27 janvier</span><span style="color: black;">. </span><span style="color: black;">Le soir même, b</span><span style="color: black;">énéficiant </span><span style="color: black;">d’un mouvement de soutien incroyable</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et de l’appui de la police </span><span style="color: black;">ainsi que</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">d’une partie de l’armée</span><span style="color: black;">, il </span><span style="color: black;">est encouragé par </span><span style="color: black;">plusieurs dizaines de milliers de</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">sympathisants de la Ligue </span><span style="color: black;">des Patriotes</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">rendus </span><span style="color: black;">ivres par le parfum de la victoire, à marcher sur l’Elysée et à renverser la </span><span style="color: black;">fragile</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">IIIème République en </span><span style="color: black;">un rapide coup d’état. La menace est bien réelle et </span><span style="color: black;">le bruit se répand comme une traînée de poudre</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">que Sadi Carnot, fraîchement é</span><span style="color: black;">lu président, fait déjà ses valises.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Seulement voilà, </span><span style="color: black;">celui que l’on </span><span style="color: black;">surnomme </span><span style="color: black;">le général «</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">la Revanche</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">ou encore le «</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Rédempteur de la </span><span style="color: black;">France</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">est </span><span style="color: black;">indéniablement</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">courageux mais pas téméraire</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">pour deux sous</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et se refuse à sortir de la légalité</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Prendre l</span><span style="color: black;">e pouvoir</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">par la force</span><span style="color: black;">, ce n’est pas rien</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">! </span><span style="color: black;">Comme il </span><span style="color: black;">l’avoue</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">lui</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">même</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">: «</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><i>Pour réussir un coup d'État, il faut neuf </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>chances sur dix, et encore on hésite</i></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">». </span><span style="color: black;">Alors, attablé au restaurant Durand, rue Royale, </span><span style="color: black;">à quelques </span><span style="color: black;">centaines de mètres à peine de l'Élysée,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">cerné par la foule, il </span><span style="color: black;">tergiverse longuement</span><span style="color: black;">. </span><span style="color: black;">Minuit </span><span style="color: black;">sonne</span><span style="color: black;">, il </span><span style="color: black;">renonce à la folle aventure et préfère rejoindre </span><span style="color: black;">bien </span><span style="color: black;">sagement sa maîtresse, Marguerite </span><span style="color: black;">de </span><span style="color: black;">Bonnemains.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">A minuit cinq, </span><span style="color: black;">déçu par le manque d’audace politique de cet aventurier peu </span><span style="color: black;">aventureux</span><span style="color: black;">,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">l’un de ses premiers fidèles déclare </span><span style="color: black;">: «</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><i>Depuis cinq minutes le boulangisme est en </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>baisse</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Si le boulet n’est pas passé bien loin, les dirigeants de la IIIème République n’entendent pas laisser de </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">seconde chance</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">au populaire général</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Fin mars 1889</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">e </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">no</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">uveau </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">M</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">inistre </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de l'Intérieur Ernest </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Constans </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">fait </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">hab</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ilement </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">courir le bruit d'une arrestation imminente </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de Boulanger qui, pris de </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">panique, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">choisit de s’exiler</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">à Londres puis à Bruxelles </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">aux côtés de</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">sa chère </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Marguerite</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, détruisant </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">par là même son </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">propre </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">mythe</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Le 4 avril, son immunité parlementaire </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">est </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">le</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">v</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">é</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">e.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Condamné </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">par le </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Sénat </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">à la prison à perpétuité par contumace</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pour complot contre </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">la sûreté intérieure</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">n</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">e se </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">remettant pas </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">du décès de son grand amour</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">en juillet 1891</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, Boulanger </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">se suicide </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">d’une ball</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">e dans la </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">tête </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">sur la tombe</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de celle</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ci</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">deux mois plus tard</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Clemenceau</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">un brin méprisant</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, dit alors</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de lui </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">qu’«</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>il est mort comme il a vécu, en sous</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>-</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>lieutenant</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>»</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Cet homme </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">qui </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">avait,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">semble</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">t</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">il,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">un </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">esprit moderne</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">laiss</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">a</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">l’image d’un réformateur de l’armée</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, et le </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">fait est que certaines de ces idées</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, glanées au fil de ses voyages[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ii]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">étaient clairement </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">bien </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">en avance </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">sur leur temps</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">En témoigne un article paru le 5 avril 1889 </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">–</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">soit quelques semaines après </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">le <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/01/sept-petits-innings-pour-convaincre-les.html">passage </a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">des Chi</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">cago White Stockings et des All America</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">à Paris </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">–</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">dans le Clinch Valley News[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">iii]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">retranscrivant </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">les termes d’une discussion entre un journaliste américain et le général </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Remarquant </span><span style="color: black;">que le général Boulanger observait les plus jeunes à Paris, je lui demandais </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><i>Mon général, quel jeu est selon vous le plus adapté à la jeunesse parisienne</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>?</i></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span><span style="color: black;">. </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><i>Le </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>football</i></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">», répondit sans hésitation le général</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><i>est le meilleur jeu qui soit pour eux : il met en </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>évidence leur endurance ainsi que leurs élans soudains, ce qui est </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>une excellente chose pour </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>les jeunes soldats, et il requiert assez de pugnacité pour le rendre intéressant. Mais</i></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">» </span><span style="color: black;">ajouta le général avec un sourire, «</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><i>quel dommage que le baseball n’ait pas encore été </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>introduit en France. C’est très exactement ce qu’i</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>l faudrait pour développer la condition </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>physique des jeunes Français. Je l’ai vu </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>en Amérique</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>[…] le baseball est le jeu qui convient au </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>tempérament nerveux des Français et </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>qui leur </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>permettrait d’exprimer notre impétuosité </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>nationale</i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>».</i></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Et dire qu’il </span><span style="color: black;">n’avait qu’à dire oui pour prendre l'Élysée.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[i]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Il </span><span style="color: black;">participe à</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">4 campagnes militaires (Kabylie, Italie, Cochinchine, guerre de 1870) au cours desquelles il </span><span style="color: black;">est</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">blessé 6 fois.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[ii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Durant sa carrière, il effectu</span><span style="color: black;">e</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">notamment</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">un voyage aux Etats</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">Unis en août 1881 comme chef de la </span><span style="color: black;">délégation française aux fêtes du centenaire de </span><span style="color: black;">l’indépendance américaine.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[iii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Boulanger A Baseball Crank</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">», in Clin</span><span style="color: black;">ch</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Valley News, 5 avril 1889, p. 8. </span><span style="color: black;">Compte tenu </span><span style="color: black;">du départ précipité de </span><span style="color: black;">Boulanger, il est </span><span style="color: black;">assez </span><span style="color: black;">difficile d’admettre que cette discussion ait pu avoir eu lieu au début du mois d’avril </span><span style="color: black;">1889.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">L’</span><span style="color: black;">article </span><span style="color: black;">mentionne en toute fin <i>New York Herald</i> et probablement faut</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">il comprendre qu’il s’agit de la </span><span style="color: black;">reprise d’un article publié antérieurement dans ce premier journal, mais quand</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">exactement ?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">La lecture des différents articles de la chronique pourrait donner l’impression que</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, en ce début de </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">vingtième siècle,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">seuls </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">quelques</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Parisiens et </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de très</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">rares Normands ont pu assister à des </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">démonstrations de baseball. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Il n’en est rien. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Bien que,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">faute de terrain de sport digne de ce nom à </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">l’époque, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">les Chicago White Stockings et des All America n</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’a</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ient pas pu jouer lors de leur passage à </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Nice en février 1889 (voir l’article <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/01/sept-petits-innings-pour-convaincre-les.html">Sept petits innings pour convaincre les Français</a></span><a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/01/sept-petits-innings-pour-convaincre-les.html"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">?</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et bien </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">enco</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">re </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">que la grande ligue internationale un temps imaginée par Klegin n’ait pas vu le jour (voir <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/07/la-ligue-europeenne-de-baseball-acte-i.html">La Ligue </a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/07/la-ligue-europeenne-de-baseball-acte-i.html">Européenne de Baseball</a> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Acte I), </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">les Niçois ont </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">tout de même </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pu, eux aussi, voir</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de temps à autre</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">quelques matchs de bonne qualité.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><a name='more'></a>Comme Le Havre, don</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">t nous avons déjà eu l’occasion de parler (voir </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.fr/2013/08/la-tournee-promotionnelle-en-normandie.html">La tournée</a> promotionnelle en </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Normandie</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">), mais aussi </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">fort </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">probablement </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Brest, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Marseille </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ou bien encore</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Toulon, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">la rade de </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Villefranche</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">sur</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Mer </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">près de Nice </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">est régulièrement le lieu </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">d’escale </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de navires de la fl</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">otte </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">américaine en manœuvre </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">près des côtes françaises</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Après </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">plusieurs</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">semaines en mer</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ou avant </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">d’embarquer pour </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">quelque</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">lointaine destination</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, rien de tel qu’une partie de baseball </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">improvisée </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pour dégourdir les jambes</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">des membres d’équipage</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">C’est très exactement ce que font</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">par exemple</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">les</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">près de 2.000 officiers et hommes d’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">équipages </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">des </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">cuirassés</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Utah[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">i]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et Delaware[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ii]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">le 28 novembre 1913.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Au mouillage </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">dans la rade </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">depuis le</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">début du </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">mois </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">aux côtés du</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Wyoming[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">iii]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, ils appareillent le 30 novembre en direction de Gibraltar et des </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Açores[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">iv]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, non sans avoir </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">au préalable </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">donné l’occasion aux habitants de la région de découvrir </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">leurs </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">étranges activités sportives. La petite histoire retient que l’équipe du Delawar</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">e a remporté le match </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">joué contre celle du Utah </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">par le score de 4 à 0. Nous retenons pour notre part que «</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>u</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>ne foule </i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>nombreuse et intéressée a assisté au match.</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">»[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">v].</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Peut</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">être avons</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">nous là l’origine de la longue et très riche </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">relation entre Nice et le baseball</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[i]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">1.001</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">officiers et hommes d</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">équipage. </span><span style="color: black;">Ce navire</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">fut touché et </span><span style="color: black;">coula pendant l'attaque japonaise à Pearl Harbor le</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">7 </span><span style="color: black;">décembre</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">1941 alors qu’il avait été transformé en bateau</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">cible.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[ii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">933 officiers et hommes d</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">équipage. Le USS Delaware servit pendant toute la première guerre mondiale et jusqu’en </span><span style="color: black;">1923</span><span style="color: black;">. </span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[iii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">1.063 officier</span><span style="color: black;">s et hommes d’équipage. </span><span style="color: black;">Le USS </span><span style="color: black;">Wyoming</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">servit pendant </span><span style="color: black;">les deux </span><span style="color: black;">guerre</span><span style="color: black;">s</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">mondiale</span><span style="color: black;">s</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et jusqu</span><span style="color: black;">’en 1947.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[iv]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Battleships Are Homeward Bound</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">», in The Salt Lake T</span><span style="color: black;">ribune, 1</span><span style="color: black;">er</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">décembre</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">1913, </span><span style="color: black;">p. </span><span style="color: black;">14</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[v]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Voir les articles dans le Meriden Morning Record, 28 novembre 19</span><span style="color: black;">13 ainsi que The Washington Post, 28 novembre </span><span style="color: black;">1913.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Garamond,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 9.96pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Né en 1883, </span><span style="color: black;">Émile Dubonnet, fils de Marius Dubonnet, le producteur de spiritueux du même </span><span style="color: black;">nom[</span><span style="color: black;">i]</span><span style="color: black;">, est une figure du sport d</span><span style="color: black;">e la Bel</span><span style="color: black;">l</span><span style="color: black;">e E</span><span style="color: black;">poque. </span><span style="color: black;">Sans trop exagérer, n</span><span style="color: black;">ous pourrions dire qu’</span><span style="color: black;">en </span><span style="color: black;">réalité </span><span style="color: black;">il profite de la fortune familiale en s’adonnant aux loisirs. Très intéressé </span><span style="color: black;">par tout ce qui est </span><span style="color: black;">moderne, il est tour à tour cycliste, footballeur, patineur, escrimeur, pilote de course, et de manière </span><span style="color: black;">générale pratique toutes les disciplines possibles avant de devenir un brillant aéronaute et </span><span style="color: black;">de </span><span style="color: black;">se </span><span style="color: black;">classer au premier rang des pilot</span><span style="color: black;">es aviateurs</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Il fait ses débuts en ballon le 26 février</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">1906 et prend part à de nombreux concours internationaux. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Détenteur</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">u</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">brevet de pilote aviateur n°47, il remporte le 3 avril 1910, lors de son 10</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ème</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">vol </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">seulement, le Prix de « La Nature » et devient par la même occasion recordman du monde du vol à </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">trave</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">rs pays par 109 km en accomplissant la traversée de Juvisy à La Ferté</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Saint</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Aubin</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">. Quelques </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">semaines</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">plus tard, le 26 avril,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">il fait une démonstration de vol </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">à Issy</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">les</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Moulineaux</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pour </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ancien </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">P</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">résident <a href="http://thenextbaseballcountrywillbefrance.blogspot.com/2013/02/duel-baseball-et-prix-nobel-de-la-paix.html">Roosevelt</a>[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ii]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, en visite </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">en France</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">S</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">on avion s</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">e brise</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">il s’en sort </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">miraculeusement </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">indemne[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">iii]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Théodore</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Roosevelt</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">regardant voler Dubonnet à</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Issy</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">les</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">Moulineaux,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">le</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">26 </span><span style="color: black;">avril 1910 </span><span style="color: black;">(a</span><span style="color: black;">gence Rol</span><span style="color: black;">, source Gallica</span><span style="color: black;">).</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">C</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">es</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">t</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">à l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">occasion d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">un voyage qu</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">il effectue </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">aux </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Etats</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Unis[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">iv] </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">année suivante</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pour prendre part </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">avec son </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Condor III</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">à Kansas City, à la 6</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ème</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">édition de la prestigieuse course aéronautique Gordon </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Bennett[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">v]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, qu</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">il découvre le baseball</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">à</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">28 ans</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Au moment d</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’embarquer à New York le 26 oct</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">obre</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">1911 </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pour rentrer en Europe</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, il déclare qu’il a suivi avec beaucoup d’attention l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">es matchs </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">des World </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Series entre les Giants de John McGraw et les Athletics de Connie Mack </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">qu’il </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">est devenu </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">complète</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ment </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">fou</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de baseball[</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">vi]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Il faut dire que cette série est </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ri</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">che en rebondissements et que les </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">frappes de Frank Baker contre le</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">lanceur</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Christy Mathewson dans le troisième match</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">laissent</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">une </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">très forte impression</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">générale, sans compter qu’un public de 37.000 spectateurs dans un stade n’est </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pas chose habituelle pour </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">un Français</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">!</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Il n’est </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">donc </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">guère surprenant qu’il ait été séduit</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">par cette </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">atmosphère si particulière</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Dubonnet </span><span style="color: black;">espère non </span><span style="color: black;">pas </span><span style="color: black;">simplement</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">introduire ce sport en France, mais en faire </span><span style="color: black;">le</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">sport </span><span style="color: black;">national[</span><span style="color: black;">vii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">et mettre sur pie</span><span style="color: black;">d des rencont</span><span style="color: black;">res entre équipes a</span><span style="color: black;">méricaine</span><span style="color: black;">s et f</span><span style="color: black;">rançaise</span><span style="color: black;">s</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">en l’espace de </span><span style="color: black;">quelques a</span><span style="color: black;">nnées</span><span style="color: black;">. </span><span style="color: black;">C’est un programme ambitieux mais p</span><span style="color: black;">our lui</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">cela ne fait pas l'ombre d'un doute et il </span></span><span style="color: black;">déclare</span><span style="color: black;"> à New York[</span><span style="color: black;">viii]</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">:</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> L</span><span style="color: black;">es </span><span style="color: black;">Français s’enthousiasment facilement et le baseball </span><span style="color: black;">leur conviend</span><span style="color: black;">ra. Je crois même que ce sera plus populaire là</span><span style="color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">bas q</span><span style="color: black;">u’ici</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">»</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span></i></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Il en est à tel point convaincu qu'il va même jusqu'à prédire[ix] :</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><i>"Je serai le Christophe Colomb du baseball en France et le jour viendra où l'on érigera des statues à la mémoire du bienfaiteur du peuple français que je serai devenu".</i></span></blockquote>
<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Concrètement, à</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">défaut d’y jouer </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">sans doute faute de temp</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">s </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">il </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">participe</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">discrètement</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">à partir de 1912</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ou plus c</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ertain</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ement 1913,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">au financement des </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">différe</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ntes </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">organisations</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">dont</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">nous avons eu l</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">occasion </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de parler</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Il est également fort probable que ses </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">relations lui permettent de faire paraître fréquemment des articles dans certains journaux, et nous </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">pensons notamment </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">au journal</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">L’Aéro</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">, qui a publié plusieurs communiqués </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">sur le baseball </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">à partir </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">1913</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Relev</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ons au passage </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">que </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">la m</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">aison Dubonnet fait de la réclame dans les publications </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">françaises de Spalding</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">ainsi que</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">dans la revue Tous les sports, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">et sponsorise depuis fort longtemps </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">un certain nombre de compétitions sportives</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">de toutes sortes</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[i]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">La marque est passée dans la mémoire collective grâce à son slogan publicitaire "Dubo, Dubon, Dubonnet", modèle de </span><span style="color: black;">publicité simple et épurée.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[ii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Son</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">second </span><span style="color: black;">mandat</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">de </span><span style="color: black;">pré</span><span style="color: black;">sident</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">a </span><span style="color: black;">pris fin</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">le </span><span style="color: black;">4 mars 1909.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[iii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«Witnesses First Aeroplane Flight</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">», in The Times Dispatch, 27 avril 1910, p. 1. </span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[iv]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Nine Balloons Start In Race</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">», in The Evening Independent, 5 </span><span style="color: black;">octobre</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">1911.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[v]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">James Gordon Bennett, aventurier et magnat de la presse a</span><span style="color: black;">méricaine, a créé cette compétition internationale en 1906. </span><span style="color: black;">Francophile, il a choisi le jardin des Tuileries à Paris pour le départ des seize ballons qui ont concouru pour la première </span><span style="color: black;">édition.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[vi]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Frenchman Plans Baseball As France’s National Game », in Th</span><span style="color: black;">e Atlanta Constitution, 28 </span><span style="color: black;">octobre</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">1911.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[vii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Baseball For France</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">», in The New York Times, 27 </span><span style="color: black;">octobre</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">1911.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[viii]</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Baseball For France</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">», in The Washington Post, 5 </span><span style="color: black;">novembre</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">1911.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">[ix] </span></span><span style="color: black;">«</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Baseball In France</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">», in Bryan Daily Eagle And Pilot., 3 </span><span style="color: black;">novembre</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">1911.</span></div>
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