The Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban BaseballOxford University Press, 2001 M05 24 - 512 páginas From the first amateur leagues of the 1860s to the exploits of Livan and Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez, here is the definitive history of baseball in Cuba. Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria expertly traces the arc of the game, intertwining its heroes and their stories with the politics, music, dance, and literature of the Cuban people. What emerges is more than a story of balls and strikes, but a richly detailed history of Cuba told from the unique cultural perch of the baseball diamond. Filling a void created by Cuba's rejection of bullfighting and Spanish hegemony, baseball quickly became a crucial stitch in the complex social fabric of the island. By the early 1940s Cuba had become major conduit in spreading the game throughout Latin America, and a proving ground for some of the greatest talent in all of baseball, where white major leaguers and Negro League players from the U.S. all competed on the same fields with the cream of Latin talent. Indeed, readers will be introduced to several black ballplayers of Afro-Cuban descent who played in the Major Leagues before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier once and for all. Often dramatic, and always culturally resonant, Gonzalez Echevarria's narrative expertly lays open the paradox of fierce Cuban independence from the U.S. with Cuba's love for our national pastime. It shows how Fidel Castro cannily associated himself with the sport for patriotic p.r.--and reveals that his supposed baseball talent is purely mythical. Based on extensive primary research and a wealth of interviews, the colorful, often dramatic anecdotes and stories in this distinguished book comprise the most comprehensive history of Cuban baseball yet published and ultimately adds a vital lost chapter to the history of baseball in the U.S. |
Contenido
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3 From a House Divided to a Full House | 44 |
4 A Cuban Belle Époque | 75 |
5 The Golden Age | 112 |
Illustrations | 144 |
6 The Great Amateur Era | 189 |
7 The Revival of the Cuban League | 252 |
8 The Age of Gold | 298 |
9 Baseball and Revolution | 352 |
Notes | 407 |
Bibliography | 423 |
Index | 441 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
The Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban Baseball Roberto González Echevarría Vista previa limitada - 1999 |
The Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban Baseball Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria Vista previa limitada - 2001 |
The Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban Baseball Roberto González Echevarría Vista de fragmentos - 1999 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 82 - ... established as a basis for suffrage it would disqualify nearly as large a proportion of the whites as of the blacks in the country districts, if not throughout the community. The higher classes of white people are generally fairly well educated. The doctors, pharmacists, engineers, and planters are the most intelligent, and many of them were educated in the States or in Europe.
Página 14 - Who is the greatest manager, really, Luque or Mike Gonzalez?" "I think they are equal." "And the best fisherman is you." "No. I know others better." "Que va," the boy said. "There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only you." "Thank you. You make me happy. I hope no fish will come along so great that he will prove us wrong." "There is no such fish if you are still...
Página 197 - It clusters about the ingenio, or mammoth sugar-mill, which stands smokeless and silent through all the " dead season," its towering chimneys looming forth against the cane-green background for miles in every direction. Here the manager has his sumptuous dwelling, his heads of departments their commodious residences, the host of lesser American employees their comfortable screened houses shading away in size and location in the exact gradations of the local social scale. Usually there are company...
Página 126 - National Association of Colored Baseball Clubs of the United States and Cuba.
Página 190 - The International Labour Organization (ILO) can be traced back to the turn of the century when the initiative was mainly taken by Germany, in part because of fears of social dumping due to higher German standards in social security and labour protection. The field of cooperation is reminiscent of the so-called social dimension within the EC/ EU. The ILO was set up according to separate provisions...
Página 97 - CLUBS. The spacious and commodious building of the Almendares Club is situated opposite the Quinta de los Molinos, or Captain-General's summer residence. The Havana Base Ball Club is at the Vedado, up the north shore.
Página 163 - season is lengthening year by year and in time to come will probably last from November to April, for during these six months the weather is dry and well-nigh perfect. The snobbery of society, with its restless insistence on change, will always have a 'high' season, however, and this begins shortly after the New Year and culminates at the end of March
Página 130 - Caridad" means someone entrusted at birth to the Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre, the patron saint of Cuba.
Página 129 - As a result of the introduction of Base Ball into our island colonies, many American professionals are finding winter employment, both as coaches and players, while here and there the appearance of a Spanish name on the published score card of games played at home shows that first-class professionals are being developed in the...