The tropic of baseball : baseball in the Dominican Republic / Rob Ruck ; with a new afterword by the authoer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruck, Rob, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baseball--Dominican Republic--History.

Baseball.

History.

Dominican Republic.

Physical Description:

xx, 217 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1999]

Summary:

In a new afterword Rob Ruck looks at the current state of baseball in the country that has produced Sammy Sosa and many other major league stars. Ruck teaches history at the University of Pittsburgh and is the author of Sandlot Seasons: Sport in Black Pittsburgh and other books. He was project director for the film Kings on the Hill, an Emmy-winning documentary on Negro League baseball.

Contents:

Introduction: Los Muchachos of Winter xi

1. The Apostles of Baseball 1

2. The Yankee Years 17

3. Have Baseball

Will Travel 34

4. Peloteros in the Banana Fields 47

5. The Dominican Dandy 61

6. The Winter Game 99

7. Three Kings Day in Consuelo 115

8. Mauricio, Padre Jose and Rico 140

9. The City of Shortstops 167

Postscript: Season's End 185.

Notes:

Originally published: Westport, Ct. : Meckler, c1991.

Includes index.

ISBN:

0803289782

OCLC:

39923782