Viva baseball! : Latin major leaguers and their special hunger / Samuel O. Regalado.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Regalado, Samuel O. (Samuel Octavio), 1953-

Series:

Sport and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hispanic American baseball players--Biography.

Hispanic American baseball players.

Baseball players--Latin America--Biography.

Baseball players.

Regalado, Samuel O.

Latin America.

Local Subjects:

Regalado, Samuel O.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xvi, 224 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1998.

Summary:

Lively and anecdotal, Viva Baseball! chronicles the struggles of Latin American professional baseball players in the United States from the late 1800s to the present. Even as "Fernandomania" raged in 1981, most Latin players felt lonely, shunned, and forgotten. Samuel Regalado reveals the shocking racism faced by these immigrant athletes in a white culture. Only a burning desire to succeed and a grim determination to leave behind the grinding poverty of their homelands could have driven these men to continue in the face of overwhelming hostility.

In addition to mining the National Baseball Hall of Fame Library in Cooperstown, New York, and the Sporting News archives, Regalado conducted interviews with some twenty-five Latin baseball stars, among them Felipe Alou, Orlando Cepeda, and Tony Oliva.

Contents:

That special hunger

Beginnings

Béisbol in El Norte

In las grandes ligas

What kind of country is this?

Strangers in the land

Nobody cares about us

Pepper blood

Adios amigo Roberto

Fernandomania

The spirit of the Latin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216) and index.

Local Notes:

The Balch Institute Library and Archives.

Other Format:

Online version: Regalado, Samuel O. (Samuel Octavio), 1953- Viva baseball!

ISBN:

0252023722

9780252023729

0252067126

9780252067129

OCLC:

36977217