Playing America's game baseball, Latinos, and the color line / [electronic resource] :
Adrian Burgos, Jr.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.
- xx, 362 p. : ill.
- American crossroads ; 23 .
- American crossroads ; 23. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-344) and index.
Introduction: Latinos play America's game -- A national game emerges -- Early maneuvers -- Holding the line -- Baseball should follow the flag -- "Purest bars of Castilian soap" -- Making Cuban stars -- Becoming Cuban senators -- Playing in the world Jim Crow made -- Latinos and baseball's integration -- Troubling the waters -- Latinos and baseball's global turn -- Saying it is So-sa! -- Conclusion: Still playing America's game.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Hispanic American baseball players--History. Baseball--History.--United States Racism in sports--History.--United States