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Baseball à la française, and wine in baby bottles

The French Journal

2008-4-24 12:03pm

Call this post "links to videos about French marginalia," since there are two brief clips I'm leading you to (and I don't have the skill to embed them in this post).

First up, from Time, is a video about some Frenchmen who have fallen in love with American baseball and who play in a local league. While the game has not yet taken the country by storm, a couple of the players are good enough to have been scouted for play with professional teams in the U.S.

Second, via The Guardian (U.K.), is a story of a Montmartre restaurant with a gimmick: it serves wine in baby bottles. From the tables packed with tourists, it appears the ploy is working, but I'd suggest it's only for those who only like their cabs laced with rubber.