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Author: Michael Silverstone Publisher: Capstone Classroom ISBN: 9780736828321 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 52
Book Description
Profiles some of baseball's present and past superstars who are from Spanish-speaking countries such as Cuba, Venezuela, and Puerto Rico, including Roberto Clemente, the Alou brothers, and Miguel Tejada.
Author: Michael Silverstone Publisher: Capstone Classroom ISBN: 9780736828321 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 52
Book Description
Profiles some of baseball's present and past superstars who are from Spanish-speaking countries such as Cuba, Venezuela, and Puerto Rico, including Roberto Clemente, the Alou brothers, and Miguel Tejada.
Author: Lew Freedman Publisher: Greenwood ISBN: 0313378673 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 0
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Told through profiles of the men who have made it a reality, this is the complex story of the triumphs achieved by—and challenges faced by—Latinos who have risen to the heights of Major League Baseball. Latino Baseball Legends: An Encyclopedia offers the most comprehensive, go-to source for everything relating to Latin American baseball stars, tracing the history of Latinos in baseball through the stories of those who have excelled at the game. Colorfully written 3,000-word entries explore the lives and careers of 25 dominant players, from legends such as Roberto Clemente to deserving, but comparatively unknown superstars such as Martin Dihigo. Shorter listings note another 75 Latinos who have figured prominently in the sport. The entries document the importance of baseball in Latin American culture and the way it has evolved in the players' home countries, but the encyclopedia does more than that. Its profiles also expose the difficulties faced by Latino players who are forced to overcome both a language barrier and the discrimination they face because of their skin color. And they demonstrate how proficiency with a bat and ball has become a great engine that can lift families out of poverty and provide hope for indigent youths.
Author: Tim Wendel Publisher: National Geographic Books ISBN: 9781426202162 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 164
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Photographer Villegas and sportswriter Wendel dramatically reveal the energy, talent, and hard-driving ambition of baseball players from Venezuela to the Dominican Republic, both the few who make it and the many who don't.
Author: P. C. Bjarkman Publisher: ISBN: 9780313336706 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages :
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Major league baseball has exploded into a truly international sport, and at the vanguard stand legions of ballplayers native to Spanish-speaking Latin American nations. This book features over 500 profiles of the most influential Latino figures in baseball, including ball players, team and league officials, managers, and sportswriters.
Author: Jonah Winter Publisher: ISBN: 9781584302346 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents profiles of fourteen Latino baseball players who, from 1900 through the 1960s, were pioneers of the sport in their home countries and the United States.
Author: Samuel Octavio Regalado Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 9780252067129 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 260
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Lively and anecdotal, Viva Baseball! chronicles the struggles of Latin American professional baseball players in the United States from the late 1800s to the present. Even as "Fernandomania" raged in 1981, most Latin players felt lonely, shunned, and forgotten. Samuel Regalado reveals the shocking racism faced by these immigrant athletes in a white culture. Only a burning desire to succeed and a grim determination to leave behind the grinding poverty of their homelands could have driven these men to continue in the face of overwhelming hostility. In addition to mining the National Baseball Hall of Fame Library in Cooperstown, New York, and the Sporting News archives, Regalado conducted interviews with some twenty-five Latin baseball stars, among them Felipe Alou, Orlando Cepeda, and Tony Oliva.
Author: Thomas E. Van Hyning Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 9780786419708 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 308
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Since its inception in 1938, the Liga de Beisbol Professional de Puerto Rico has launched the careers of numerous island players, including Ruben Gomez, Jerry Morales, Orlando Cepeda, Vic Power, Ruben Sierra and the greatest of all Puerto Rican stars, Roberto Clemente. For many "imports," the league has been a stepping stone to major league stardom. In its early years, many of the league's stars came from the Negro Leagues: Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Buck Leonard, Monte Irvin and Roy Campanella were just a few of the African American stars who graced the Puerto Rican diamonds in the 1940s and early 1950s. The Santurce outfield of 1954 featured one of the finest outfields in baseball history: Clemente, Willie Mays, and Puerto Rican star Bob Thurman. Through the mid-1980s, many major league teams sent their up-and-coming stars to Puerto Rico for a final bit of seasoning--Cal Ripken, Jr., Tony Gwynn, Johnny Bench, Rickey Henderson, Phil Niekro, Hank Aaron and Robin Yount were among them. They played for such future league big league managers as Frank Robinson, Jim Fregosi and Kevin Kennedy, while the balls and strikes were called by Nestor Chylak, Doug Harvey, Dale Ford and many other future major league umpires.
Author: Marcos Bretón Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 288
Book Description
The heartwrenching story of Latinos in the Major Leagues told through the personal struggles of Miguel Tejada, a young Dominican hopeful who saw baseball as his only escape from the poverty of his country. photo insert.
Author: Michael Silverstone
Author: Michael Silverstone
Author: Lew Freedman
Author: Tim Wendel
Author: P. C. Bjarkman
Author: Jonah Winter
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Author: Samuel Octavio Regalado
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Author: Thomas E. Van Hyning
Author: Marcos Bretón