Playing America's game : baseball, Latinos, and the color line /
Latinos have been a significant presence in professional leagues from the beginning. Offering a study on Latinos and professional baseball since the 1880s, this book tells a compelling story of the men who negotiated the color line at every turn: passing as "Spanish" in the major leagues,...
| Основен автор: | Burgos, Adrian, 1969- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Berkeley :
University of California Press,
℗♭2007.
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| Серия: |
American crossroads ;
23. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=208214 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Playing America's game. |
Съдържание:
- Introduction: Latinos play America's game
- A national game emerges
- Early maneuvers
- Holding the line
- Baseball should follow the flag
- "Purest bars of Castilian soap"
- Making Cuban stars
- Becoming Cuban senators
- Playing in the world Jim Crow made
- Latinos and baseball's integration
- Troubling the waters
- Latinos and baseball's global turn
- Saying it is So-sa!
- Conclusion: Still playing America's game.