Viva Baseball

by Regalado, Samuel O.

• ISBN13: 9780252073670
• ISBN10: 0252073673
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-04-04
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Samuel O. Regalado is a professor of history at California State University, Stanislaus.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
That Special Hunger	p. 1
Beginnings	p. 6
Beisbol in El Norte	p. 19
In Las Grandes Ligas	p. 39
What Kind of Country Is This?	p. 65
Strangers in the Land	p. 91
Nobody Cares about Us	p. 116
Pepper Blood	p. 134
Adios Amigo Roberto	p. 148
Fernandomania	p. 170
The Spirit of the Latin	p. 193
"Sammy Is the Man"	p. 207
The Latinos Have Arrived	p. 213
Bibliography	p. 237
Index	p. 249
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