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Unlike John Krich's survey of all Latin America in El Beisbol ( LJ 5/1/89), this looks only at the half-island nation which sent Hall of Famer Juan Marichal and other stars to the big leagues. Ruck ( Sandlot Seasons: Sport in Black Pittsburgh, LJ 1/15/87) traces baseball's 100 years there against the story of foreign economic domination and Trujillo repression. Though expensive for some libraries, this is a valuable study and should be in all serious collections.
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"In the Dominican Republic . . . baseball reigns supreme. San Pedro de Macor�s, 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 (Journal of American History )
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- Full Count: Inside Cuban Baseball (Writing Baseball) by Professor Milton H. Jamail Ph.D. in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Out of the Shadows: African American Baseball from the Cuban Giants to Jackie Robinson by William Kirwin on page 13, and page 60
- Latin American Sport: An Annotated Bibliography, 1988-1998 (Bibliographies and Indexes on Sports History) by Joseph L. Arbena on page 53, and page 57
- The New Face of Baseball: The One-Hundred-Year Rise and Triumph of Latinos in America's Favorite Sport by Tim Wendel in Back Matter
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