The Greatest Cuban Baseball Player You've Never Heard Of
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Only the Ball Was White: A History of Legendary Black Players and All-Black Professional Teams
- ASIN: 0195076370
- ISBN: 9780195076370
- Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
Early in the 1920s, the New York Giants sent a scout to watch a young Cuban play for Foster's American Giants, a baseball club in the Negro Leagues. During one at-bat this talented slugger lined a ball so hard that the rightfielder was able to play it off the top of the fence and throw Christobel Torrienti out at first base. The scout liked what he... [Read More]
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The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First
- ASIN: 0345517652
- ISBN: 0345517652
- Brand: ESPN Books
- Manufacturer: ESPN Books
What happens when three financial industry whiz kids and certified baseball nuts take over an ailing major league franchise and implement the same strategies that fueled their success on Wall Street? In the case of the 2008 Tampa Bay Rays, an American League championship happens—the culmination of one of the greatest turnarounds in baseball histo... [Read More]
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Cuban Baseball: A Statistical History, 1878 - 1961
- ASIN: 078641250X
- ISBN: 078641250X
- Brand: Brand: Macfarland n Co.
- Manufacturer: McFarland Publishing
In March 1999, the Baltimore Orioles played a team of Cuban all-stars, the first time a major league baseball team from the United States had played a Cuban team since Cuba’s communist revolution in 1959. The Orioles won 3–2 in 11 innings. This text presents basic statistical information and listings for every Cuban baseball team from 1878 unt... [Read More]
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Armando Marsans: A Cuban Pioneer in the Major Leagues
- ASIN: 0786415843
- ISBN: 0786415843
- Brand: Brand: Mcfarland n Co Inc Pub
- Manufacturer: McFarland & Company
Armando Marsans, who joined the Cincinnati Reds in 1911, was the first Cuban star of the major leagues. Events in baseball have often mirrored America's social development--Jackie Robinson's breaking of the color barrier is one example--and the story of Armando Marsans has much to teach about the United States and Latin America during the early 20t... [Read More]
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The Escape: An Irish Mafia Romance (Downing Family Book 1)
- ASIN: B07GBHZ3WG
- Manufacturer: Belmonte Publishing, LLC
Brooks and Daria's trilogy is now complete.My little brother is marrying the daughter of a Cuban Mob boss, creating a powerful alliance between our Irish and Cuban families. But unless I can keep my…uh, private parts in my pants and stop chasing the bridesmaid, we’ll all be screwed. As the son of an Irish Mob boss, Brooks Downing is utterly ded... [Read More]
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Out of the Shadows: African American Baseball from the Cuban Giants to Jackie Robinson
- ASIN: 080327825X
- ISBN: 080327825X
- Brand: Brand: Bison Books
- Manufacturer: Bison Books
For nearly fifteen years NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture has been a leading scholarly journal of baseball history. Covering the cultural and historical implications of America’s national pastime, NINE has explored baseball from the earliest matches and little-known players of the 1800s to the modern billion-dollar industry and its... [Read More]
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2016 Who's Who in Baseball
- ASIN: 091069236X
- ISBN: 091069236X
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Vindicated: Big Names, Big Liars, and the Battle to Save Baseball
- ASIN: 1416593519
- ISBN: 1416593519
- Brand: Gallery Books
- Manufacturer: Gallery Books
Vindicated is the New York Times bestselling memoir from Jose Canseco with shocking new details about Major League Baseball's steroid epidemic.In 2005, Jose Canseco blew the lid off Major League Baseball's steroid scandal—and no one believed him. His New York Times bestselling memoir Juiced met a firestorm of criticism and outrage from the media,... [Read More]
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Cuba Loves Baseball: A Photographic Journey
- ASIN: 1510730435
- ISBN: 1510730435
- Brand: Skyhorse
- Manufacturer: Skyhorse
According to the New York Times, Cuba is at an historic turning point. As Cuba catches up with political and economic changes, baseball will inevitably catch up and change as well. In Cuba Loves Baseball, photographer Ira Block, who has spent the past three years photographing the culture of Cuba through baseball, has assembled more than one hundre... [Read More]
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Smoke: The Romance And Lore Of Cuban Baseball
- ASIN: 0756779251
- ISBN: 0756779251
- Manufacturer: Diane Pub Co
Shrouded in mystery for decades, Cuban baseball has become the final frontier for fans of the sport in America. An unprecedented collection of photographs, statistics, and lore, 'Smoke' explores the depth and range of the island's baseball heritage - from its origins in the 1870s, to Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb's barnstorming tours, to Fidel Castro and t... [Read More]
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El Tiante, the Luis Tiant story
- ASIN: 0385121164
- ISBN: 0385121164
- Brand: Brand: Doubleday
- Manufacturer: Doubleday
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Early U.S. Blackball Teams in Cuba: Box Scores, Rosters and Statistics for the American Series, 1900–1945
- ASIN: 0786419288
- ISBN: 0786419288
- Brand: Brand: McFarland
- Manufacturer: McFarland & Company
Before they were the stars of the Negro Leagues--before the Negro Leagues even began--outstanding African American players like Rube Foster, Charles Grant and Pop Lloyd competed against the leading players of Cuba. In the early years of the 20th century, winners of the "colored" championship in the United States traveled to Cuba to compete against ... [Read More]
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The Duke of Havana: Baseball, Cuba, and the Search for the American Dream
- ASIN: 0375503455
- ISBN: 0375503455
- Manufacturer: Villard
In 1998, a mysterious right-handed pitcher emerged from the ashes of the Cold War and helped lead the New York Yankees to a World Championship. His origins and even his age were uncertain. His name was Orlando El Duque Hernandez. He was a fallen hero of Fidel Castro's socialist revolution.The chronicle of El Duque's triumph is at once a window into... [Read More]
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Voices from the Pastime: Oral Histories of Surviving Major Leaguers, Negro Leaguers, Cuban Leaguers and Writers, 1920-1934
- ASIN: 0786408243
- ISBN: 0786408243
- Brand: Brand: Mcfarland n Co Inc Pub
- Manufacturer: McFarland & Company
Over 1,500 men played major league baseball during the golden era of the 1920s, and over 850 played in the Negro Leagues during the same decade. At the end of the 20th century only about 20 of those men were still alive. The author of this work tracked down all of those players, 14 of whom were able to grant an interview. In this unique book, those... [Read More]
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The Grandmaster: Magnus Carlsen and the Match That Made Chess Great Again
- ASIN: 1501172603
- ISBN: 1501172603
- Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
A firsthand account of the dramatic 2016 World Chess Championship between Norway's Magnus Carlsen and Russia's Sergey Karjakin, which mirrored the world's geopolitical unrest and rekindled a global fascination with the sport.The first week of November 2016, as a crowd of people swarmed outside of Manhattan’s Trump Tower to rail against the electi... [Read More]
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Just Call Me Minnie: My Six Decades in Baseball
- ASIN: 0915611902
- ISBN: 0915611902
- Brand: Brand: Sagamore Publishing
- Manufacturer: Sports Publishing LLC
On May 1, 1951, a legend was born. Newly acquired Orestes Minoso, the first black to play Major League Baseball in the City of Chicago, stepped into the batter's box for his first turn at bat in a Chicago White Sox uniform. Minnie tells of his boyhood days in the sugar fields of Cuba, racial discrimination in Cuban society, and feelings of betrayal... [Read More]
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Extra Innings: My Life in Baseball
- ASIN: 0895266253
- ISBN: 0895266253
- Brand: Brand: Regnery Pub
- Manufacturer: Gateway Books
Depicts the career of the baseball player, Minnie Minoso, and describes his contributions to the development of the Chicago White Sox into a champion baseball team
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Al Lopez: The Life of Baseball's El Senor
- ASIN: 0786406569
- ISBN: 0786406569
- Manufacturer: McFarland & Company
Alfonso Ramon Lopez spent 36 years in the big leagues as a catcher and manager. He had a .261 lifetime batting average, compiled 1,547 hits and caught a then-record 1,918 games in a 19-year playing career. The teams he managed--the Cleveland Indians and the Chicago White Sox--won two pennants and finished runner-up 10 times in 17 seasons. He was th... [Read More]
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The Cuban Prospect
- ASIN: 1585673447
- ISBN: 1585673447
- Manufacturer: The Overlook Press
With disarming intensity, humor, and great heart, Brian Shawver tells the story of Dennis Birch, a washed up thirty-four-year-old failed ball player turned minor league scout whose field of dreams has always been baseball. No longer a candidate for baseball greatness himself―if he ever was―Dennis accepts the challenge of smuggling a hot left-ha... [Read More]
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Rafael Palmeiro: At Home With the Balitmore Orioles
- ASIN: 1883845386
- ISBN: 1883845386
- Manufacturer: Mitchell Lane Pub Inc
A profile of the Baltimore Orioles' first baseman also includes a historical look at Cuban baseball and the Orioles franchise
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