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us engineers and employees from the Chile exploration Company celebrating us Independence Day with their families, July 4, 1918. since that day, baseball was established as a ritual of nostalgia for american migrants, simultaneously awakening the local population's interest. source: author's archive.
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During the second decade of the twentieth century, with the industrialization of the Chuquicamata mine (Atacama Desert, Chile), workers from an American mining company introduced baseball to the inhabitants of the city of Tocopilla. From an elite sport practised by the Americans and embodying social segregation, baseball evolved into a widespread s...
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... sporting events, attended by the entire American community, were an exciting novelty for the local population, who gathered in the vicinity of the field. They witnessed an exotic but attractive yet little understood sport: the linguistic and socio-economic difference was a solid relational barrier between the foreign players and the local spectators (Figure 2). ...
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