The cuban influence in introducing baseball to the Canary Islands
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immigration, baseball, Canary-Cuba.Abstract
As happened in other territories, the Canary Islands are incorporated into the discourse of modernity from the mid-nineteenth century. Concerning physical activity and sport, construction of discourses about body is configured in different ways: educational, sanitary, military, sporting, etc. One of the sports that are introduced into the islands in the first decade of the twentieth century is baseball. Its appearance is closely linked to the social reality of the archipelago, in the different phases of subsistence crisis that happened in those years, an important portion of the population chose "to get fortune in America." In this sense, the islanders found in territories such as Cuba, Venezuela and Puerto Rico a chance for growth and social development. This cultural contact, among other consequences, will create societies and associations that combined the interests of the Canary emigrants. This population, when returning to the islands, brought their new habits, to a greater or lesser extent, including sport activities such as baseball, imported from Cuba, and the export of traditional recreational practices such as Canarian wrestling.
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