"If baseball is really a metaphor for life, then Kill the Ampaya --
Dick Cluster's wonderful collection of Latin American baseball
stories -- is an astonishing record of its beauty and coarseness,
redemption and tragedy. You don't have to be a baseball fan to
appreciate these stories, each one hinged on baseball directly or
indirectly, and delight in this reading."-Achy Obejas, author of
The Tower of Antilles and Other Stories "These are stories we have
lived...Some are funny, some cruel or violent, but in the end they
are part of our culture that makes us act the way we do. They make
me think of the millions of stories that got lost behind us." -Omar
Vizquel, from Venezuela, one of baseball's all-time best fielding
shortstops who played for the Seattle Mariners, Cleveland Indians,
San Francisco Giants, Texas Rangers, Chicago White Sox, and Toronto
Blue Jays. "Baseball is in the soul of millions in Puerto Rico and
the other countries that play the game with a Latino flair. These
stories are portraits of its place in our lives." -Benjie Molina,
former Texas Rangers catcher and first base coach. A rich variety
of baseball fiction exists south of the Florida Straits and the Rio
Grande, but almost none available in English. This collection
translates for the first time stories ranging from the highly
literary to the vernacular. These inventive and entertaining
stories reveal the place of baseball in Latin America. Mixing fan
and fandom, baseball and politics, rural and urban life, sexism and
poverty, Kill the Ampaya! reveals how baseball shapes the social
fabric of everyday Latin American life. The collection includes
well known writers such as Leonardo Padura from Cuba (The Man Who
Loved Dogs), Sergio Ramirez from Nicaragua (Divine Punishment, A
Thousand Deaths Plus One). Others are well known writers in their
home countries such as Arturo Arango and Eduardo del Llano in Cuba,
Alexis Gomez Rosa and Jose Bobadilla in the Dominican Republic,
Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro in Puerto Rico, Vicente Lenero in Mexico as
well as emerging literary figures such as Salvador Flejan and
Rodrigo Blanco Calderon in Venezuela, Sandra Tavarez and Daniel
Reyes German in the D.R., Carmen Hernandez Pena in Cuba.
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