El Beisbol: Travel Through the Pan American Pastime - Softcover

John Krich

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9780132479905: El Beisbol: Travel Through the Pan American Pastime

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0132479907 ISBN 13: 9780132479905

Publisher: Prentice Hall Direct, 1989

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Investigates the national fascination with baseball in Central America, the many ways in which the game and baseball culture differ from North American versions, and the meaning of baseball to Pan-American sensibility

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From Library Journal:

Krich ( One Big Bed , LJ 9/15/86) takes a baseball-oriented tour of Latin America. In mingled English and Spanish he tells of encounters with players, managers, scouts, and fans in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. En route he hobnobs with ex-big leaguers, along with active players. The growing influence of Latins on major league rosters is underlined by the one town that has produced eight shortstops for the majors. As much a travelogue as a sports report, this merits consideration.
- Morey Berger, Monmouth Cty. Lib., Manalapan, N.J.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

Krich here embarks on an odyssey to look at baseball in Latin America, beginning in Tijuana. "Although baseball is the unifying theme of this well-written, instructive survey, it is more a travel book, presenting incisive pictures of Mexico, Puerto Rico and Santo Domingo, with less searching looks at Nicaragua and Venezuela," commented PW.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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