Italian & Croatian Assimilation Survey — Nicholas Lovrich

Dr. Nicholas Lovrich, Ph.D. graduate of Stanford University, tells the story garnering  Fulbright scholarship and his dissertation at UCLA  on the assimilation patterns of Italian and Croatian immigrants to the seaside town of San Pedro, California and how those patterns impacted their ability to join the sociall fabric of their newly adopted community.

How Baseball Saved the Life of a Croatian Kid — Nicholas Lovrich

Dr. Nicholas P. Lovrich, Ph.D. was born in 1944 and raised in San Pedro. He recounts learning Croatian language and how playing baseball inspired his life and future success. Child of parents who emigrated from the town of Crikvenica in Croatia, married in Vancouver...