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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 O. Regalado reveals the shocking racism faced by these immigrant athletes in a white culture. In addition to mining the National Baseball Library in Cooperstown, New York, and the Sporting News archives, Regalado conducted interviews with some twenty-five Latin baseball stars, including Felipe Alou, Orlando Cepeda, and Tony Oliva.

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Book category Books in English Lifestyle, sport & leisure Sports & outdoor recreation Ball games

• Full title: Viva Baseball!
• Subtitle: Latin Major Leaguers and Their Special Hunger
• Author: Samuel O. Regalado
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9780252073670
• ID: 04869275
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Weight: 458 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 156 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. May 2006

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