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Author Brioso, César, 1965- author.

Title Havana hardball : spring training, Jackie Robinson, and the Cuban league / César Brioso.

Publication Info. Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2015]
©2015.

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  796.357 B77    Check Shelf
Description xv, 301 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-289) and index.
Contents The year of Dick Sisler -- Boxing Ernest Hemingway -- Opening day, Havana -- The American series -- Living legends -- Separate and unequal -- Tale of two leagues -- Hermit in Havana -- New year's resurrection -- Panama and the petition -- Whoever defeats Almendares dies -- Opening day, Brooklyn -- A house united.
Summary "Havana Hardball captures the excitement of the Cuban League's greatest pennant race and the anticipation of the looming challenge to MLB's color barrier. Illuminating one of the sport's most pivotal seasons, veteran journalist César Brioso brings together a rich mix of worlds as the heyday of Latino baseball converged with one of the most socially meaningful events in U.S. history,"--Amazon.com.
Subject Baseball -- Cuba -- History -- 20th century.
Baseball -- Social aspects -- Cuba -- History -- 20th century.
Minorities in baseball -- History -- 20th century.
Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972.
Baseball players -- Cuba -- History.
Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972. (OCoLC)fst00046870
Baseball. (OCoLC)fst00827904
Baseball players. (OCoLC)fst00828007
Baseball -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00827951
Minorities in baseball. (OCoLC)fst01749009
Nineteen forties. (OCoLC)fst01037793
Cuba. (OCoLC)fst01205805
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 0813061164 (cloth)
9780813061160 (cloth)
0813059526 (electronic bk.)
9780813059525 (electronic bk.)
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