Playing America's Game: Baseball, Latinos, And The Color Line (American Crossroads) Pdf ISBN-10 9780520251434, ISBN-13 978-0520251

Playing America's Game: Baseball, Latinos, And The Color Line (American Crossroads)

By autor: Adrian Burgos
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Although largely ignored by historians of both baseball in general and the Negro leagues in particular, Latinos have been a significant presence in organized baseball from the beginning. In this benchmark study on Latinos and professional baseball from the 1880s to the present, Adrian Burgos tells a compelling story of the men who negotiated the color line at every turn―passing as “Spanish” in the...

Series: American Crossroads (Book 23)
Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: University of California Press; First edition (June 4, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780520251434
ISBN-13: 978-0520251434
ASIN: 0520251431
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
Amazon Rank: 908033
Format: PDF ePub fb2 djvu ebook

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This is just not a treatise in baseball, but it is a fine treatise on race relation, focusing on Latinos, in society at large. It is not only a significant contribution to Latino history but to the sociology of sports too....

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ues or seeking respect and acceptance in the Negro leagues.Burgos draws on archival materials from the U.S., Cuba, and Puerto Rico, as well as Spanish- and English-language publications and interviews with Negro league and major league players. He demonstrates how the manipulation of racial distinctions that allowed management to recruit and sign Latino players provided a template for Brooklyn Dodgers’ general manager Branch Rickey when he initiated the dismantling of the color line by signing Jackie Robinson in 1947. Burgos's extensive examination of Latino participation before and after Robinson's debut documents the ways in which inclusion did not signify equality and shows how notions of racialized difference have persisted for darker-skinned Latinos like Orestes ("Minnie") Miñoso, Roberto Clemente, and Sammy Sosa.