Baseball in France

Organization

Baseball is managed in France by the French federation of baseball and softball founded in October 1924. It gathers more than 10.000 bachelors for 280 clubs in 2005.

The Équipe of France of baseball represents France in international competitions. It counts with its prize list a bronze medal with the Championnat of Europe of baseball 1999.

For the clubs, the championship of France is held since 1926. Today, the principal competitions are the Championnat of France elite and the Challenge of France.

History

The first match of baseball exploited the French soil took place the March 8th 1889 at the time of the World Fair, in the presence of the president of the Republic, Sadi Carnot. It was about a match between a selection of the players of the League National and the club of White Socks of Boston. In 1914, two formations of MLB clash in friendly match with Paris: New York Giants and Boston Red Sox.

The first French club is created in 1913 with Paris: Ranelagh baseball club. Baseball is practiced since this date in a continuous way in the Hexagon. The collective memory however keeps of it only few traces because of dismantling of the bases of NATO in 1966. These mainly American bases consituaient one of the principal vectors of the diffusion of the play. Thus, the prize list of the championship of France which begins in 1926 is nebulous today until in 1968.

External bonds

French federation of baseball

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