El Beisbol: Travels Through the Pan-American Pastime - Hardcover

Krich, John

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9780871133038: El Beisbol: Travels Through the Pan-American Pastime

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ISBN 10: 0871133032 ISBN 13: 9780871133038

Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1989

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Investigates the national fascination with baseball in Central America, the many ways in which the game and baseball culture differ from North American versions, and the meaning of baseball to Pan-American sensibility

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From Publishers Weekly:

Although baseball is the unifying theme of this well-written, instructive survey, it is more a travel book, presenting incisive pictures of Mexico, Puerto Rico and Santo Domingo, with less searching looks at Nicaragua and Venezuela. Krich ( Music in Every Room ) embarks on an odyssey to look at baseball in Latin America, beginning in Tijuana. He finds that the sport is dying in Mexico, is still haunted by the spirit of Roberto Clemente in Puerto Rico and offers an escape from appalling poverty in Santo Domingo. His chapter on baseball in San Pedro de Macoris, the Santo Domingo city which claims to have supplied the most major league players of any town in the world, is especially probing. Krich also analyzes the social structure and the politics of each country, elements outside the realm of the "Pan-American pastime."
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From Library Journal:

Krich ( One Big Bed , LJ 9/15/86) takes a baseball-oriented tour of Latin America. In mingled English and Spanish he tells of encounters with players, managers, scouts, and fans in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. En route he hobnobs with ex-big leaguers, along with active players. The growing influence of Latins on major league rosters is underlined by the one town that has produced eight shortstops for the majors. As much a travelogue as a sports report, this merits consideration.
- Morey Berger, Monmouth Cty. Lib., Manalapan, N.J.
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