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The Tropic of Baseball – Baseball in the Dominican Republic de Rob Ruck

The Tropic of Baseball – Baseball in the Dominican Republic

Autor Rob Ruck
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 ian 1999
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780803289789
ISBN-10: 0803289782
Pagini: 218
Ilustrații: Illus., maps
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: MQ – University of Nebraska Press
Locul publicării:United States

Notă biografică

Rob 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.

Recenzii

"In the Dominican Republic . . . baseball reigns supreme. San Pedro de Macorís, on the island’s southeast coast, has produced more major league ballplayers per capita than any other town in the world. According to former big leaguer Pedro Gonzalez, ‘Every boy grows up with a bat and a ball—it’s the first present a male baby gets in his crib.’ . . . Ruck offers not only the flavor of Dominican baseball but a spirited and carefully crafted account of the past and present of this complicated game. . . . A rarity in sports history."—Journal of American History

"Fans should want to know why such a little Caribbean island has so much baseball talent. . . . On this literally dirt-poor island, baseball is the Dream, the Salvation, the stabilizing societal force. . . . Baseball is all there is."—Baseball America

"Impressive . . . captures the spirit of the sport as it is played in the Dominican Republic."—Journal of Sport History