Playing America's game : baseball, Latinos, and the color line /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2007.
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| Series: | American crossroads ;
23 |
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=208214 |
Table of 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.