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Cuban star : how one Negro-League owner changed the face of baseball / Adrian Burgos, Jr.
Van Pelt Library GV865.P66 B87 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burgos, Adrian, Jr., 1969-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pompez, Alex, 1890-1974.
- Pompez, Alex.
- African American baseball team owners--Biography.
- African American baseball team owners.
- Baseball scouts--United States--Biography.
- Baseball scouts.
- Cuban Americans--Biography.
- Cuban Americans.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 302 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Hill and Wang, 2011.
- Contents:
- Rising star. Roots and routes ; Making Harlem home ; Launching of the Cuban Stars ; The rise and fall of a numbers king ; Witness for the state
- A world made new. Rebuilding the "Latins from Manhattan" ; Glory days ; Scouting the Americas for Giants ; From Cuban Stars to Dominican Giants ; Into the shadows.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-278) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780809094790
- 0809094797
- OCLC:
- 665064386
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