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Book

Havana hardball : spring training, Jackie Robinson, and the Cuban League

Call Number

  • 796.357 B8589 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]

Physical Description

xv, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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."--Jacket.

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.

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