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Author Burgos, Adrian, Jr., 1969-

Title Playing America's game : baseball, Latinos, and the color line / Adrian Burgos, Jr.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]
©2007

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  796.357 B91    Check Shelf
Description xx, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series American crossroads ; 23
American crossroads ; 23.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-344) and index.
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.
Subject Hispanic American baseball players -- History.
Baseball -- United States -- History.
Racism in sports -- United States -- History.
United States -- Race relations.
ISBN 9780520236462 cloth alkaline paper
0520236467 cloth alkaline paper
9780520251434 paperback alkaline paper
0520251431 paperback alkaline paper
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