| Viva Baseball!: Latin Major Leaguers and Their Special Hunger Contributor(s): Regalado, Samuel O. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0252073673 ISBN-13: 9780252073670 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $18.86 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2008 Annotation: Lively and anecdotal, Viva Baseball! chronicles the struggles of Latin American professional baseball players in the United States from the late 1800s to the present. Even as "Fernandomania" raged in 1981, most Latin players felt lonely, shunned, and forgotten. Samuel O. Regalado reveals the shocking racism faced by these immigrant athletes in a white culture. In addition to mining the National Baseball Library in Cooperstown, New York, and the Sporting News" "archives, Regalado conducted interviews with some twenty-five Latin baseball stars, including Felipe Alou, Orlando Cepeda, and Tony Oliva. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Baseball - History - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General - Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2007044515 |
| Series: Sport and Society |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.14" W x 9.03" (1.01 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Latino - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Lively and anecdotal, Viva Baseball chronicles the struggles of Latin American professional baseball players in the United States from the late 1800s to the present. Even as "Fernandomania" raged in 1981, most Latin players felt lonely, shunned, and forgotten. Samuel O. Regalado reveals the shocking racism faced by these immigrant athletes in a white culture. In addition to mining the National Baseball Library in Cooperstown, New York, and the Sporting News" "archives, Regalado conducted interviews with some twenty-five Latin baseball stars, including Felipe Alou, Orlando Cepeda, and Tony Oliva. |