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Dominican baseball : new pride, old prejudice / Alan Klein.
Van Pelt Library GV863.29.D65 K54 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Klein, Alan, 1946- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baseball--Dominican Republic.
- Baseball.
- Baseball players--Dominican Republic.
- Baseball players.
- Dominican Republic.
- Physical Description:
- x, 186 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, [2014]
- Contents:
- 1 Thinking about the Global Commodity Chain 17
- 2 The Rise of the Academy System 33
- 3 A Nation of Buscones 69
- 4 Astín Jacobo and the "New Dominicans" 91
- 5 Demonizing Dominicans 115
- 6 "It Felt like the Marines All Over Again": The Battle for Dominican Baseball 135.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781439910870
- 1439910871
- 9781439910887
- 143991088X
- OCLC:
- 857141294
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