Viva Baseball
by Regalado, Samuel O.Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-04-04
Publisher(s): Univ of Illinois Pr
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Summary
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.
Author Biography
Samuel O. Regalado is a professor of history at California State University, Stanislaus.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Preface | p. xiii |
| That Special Hunger | p. 1 |
| Beginnings | p. 6 |
| Beisbol in El Norte | p. 19 |
| In Las Grandes Ligas | p. 39 |
| What Kind of Country Is This? | p. 65 |
| Strangers in the Land | p. 91 |
| Nobody Cares about Us | p. 116 |
| Pepper Blood | p. 134 |
| Adios Amigo Roberto | p. 148 |
| Fernandomania | p. 170 |
| The Spirit of the Latin | p. 193 |
| "Sammy Is the Man" | p. 207 |
| The Latinos Have Arrived | p. 213 |
| Bibliography | p. 237 |
| Index | p. 249 |
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