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Playing America's Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line (Volume 23)
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Playing America's Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line (Volume 23) (American Crossroads) Paperback - 2007 - 1st Edition

by Burgos, Adrian

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  • Title Playing America's Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line (Volume 23) (American Crossroads)
  • Author Burgos, Adrian
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley
  • Date 2007-06-04
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0520251431.G
  • ISBN 9780520251434 / 0520251431
  • Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.9 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Latino
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Race relations, Baseball - United States - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007002883
  • Dewey Decimal Code 796.357

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From the publisher

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 major leagues 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") Mioso, Roberto Clemente, and Sammy Sosa.

From the rear cover

"Adrian Burgos is one of best young historians currently working the baseball beat. This is essential reading, not just for baseball aficionados, but anyone interested in the history of American race and ethnic relations."--Jules Tygiel, author of Extra Bases: Reflections on Jackie Robinson, Race, and Baseball History

"Playing America's Game is a terrific addition to the growing literature in Latino history. It is the most comprehensive and nuanced treatment of Latinos and professional baseball."--Vicki L.Ruiz, author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 08/01/2007, Page 95
  • Multicultural Review, 12/01/2007, Page 67

About the author

Adrian Burgos Jr., is Assistant Professor of History at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He was a contributing author to Shades of Glory: The Negro Leagues and the Story of African American Baseball (2006), served on the Screening and Voting Committees for the National Baseball Hall of Fame's 2006 Special Election on the Negro Leagues, and consulted on the Hall's Bisbol_Baseball! The Shared Pastime project.