Archive for January, 2010

On State’s Fields, a World Cup in Miniature

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

NEWARKJOE R. MANSO reached his hand into a crowded display case one recent afternoon and pulled out a silver trophy that could have used a good polishing. It commemorated a soccer tournament — Portuguese v. Spaniards — played in Bayonne in April 1922.
Evoking the spirits of what must have been the immigrant players’ war-weary European [...]