Viva Baseball!: Latin Major Leaguers and Their Special Hunger (Sport and Society) - Softcover

Regalado, Samuel O.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252067126 ISBN 13: 9780252067129

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1998

Synopsis

Chronicles the struggles of Latin American baseball players in the United States from the late 1800s to the present

About this title

Book 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.

About the Author:

Samuel O. Regalado is a professor of history at the University of California, Stanislaus.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0252067126
• ISBN 13: 9780252067129
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 264