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Playing America's game [electronic resource] : baseball, Latinos, and the color line / Adrian Burgos, Jr.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: American crossroads ; 23.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.Description: xx, 362 p. : illISBN:
  • 9780520940772
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 796.357 22
LOC classification:
  • GV863.A1 B844 2007
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Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-344) and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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