School material needed

[Moonlight Graham]

Hi everyone!

Some of you may already be familiar with the great story of the forum members who helped me set up a ball club here in France last year. Since then things have been going really well, the tiny baseball society has now become a great class project, which means my pupils are following their studies as any ordinary kid their age, only baseball is used as a recurrent theme from one subject matter to the other.

The biggest difficulty I'm facing is the fact that baseball is still so confidential, even absent, in France. We're facing a wall of ignorance. You might even think nothing but soccer exists here... So what I'd like to create is a kind of baseball microcosm. And what I need to do that is posters to put on the walls both in my classroom and in the corridor as well as in the school library, old magazines, old books or comics, large pictures, or other baseball related objects, nothing valuable in any way of course, simply any kind of anything that might draw the kids' attention to baseball. Even trinkets might help, you never know!

If you have anything that falls in one of the categories listed above, please let me know. Thanks!

[softball66]

Laurent, let me look around to see what I have and I'll shoot you off some
stuff.

[Moonlight Graham]

Thanks Joe, you're a great friend!

But maybe I should explain a little further for those who might hesitate to part with the collection of magazines they inherited from their grand father. Don't be afraid, I'm not after that kind of items. Let your Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig baseball cards rest in peace.

Any poster of any unknown Mr. Nobody playing baseball is a treasure to me. Old magazines that have spent ages in some dark waiting room at your doctor's or dentist's are equally valuable to me.

You really have to understand that in France, it's more likely for a kid to see Harry Potter appear in the middle of his bathroom than to see a baseball game on television... unless his dad is me!

So I really need authentic material, that is any ordinary kind of stuff you might find everyday around you that we don't here, to have my pupils feel and understand that there exists a real culture of baseball and persuade some of the kids that I did not invent the game over the summer. See?

[vintagebrett]

I have a bunch of old Sports Illustrateds from the 70's and 80's at my parents house - when I have a chance I'll see if there are any baseball ones.

[Moonlight Graham]

Thanks Brett! I think I'll try to make my own baseball magazines, using what you guys sent me last year. I'll manage anyway. Thanks for your help!