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Isabel "Lefty" Alvarez - The Improbable Life of a Cuban American Baseball Star (Hardcover)
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Isabel "Lefty" Alvarez - The Improbable Life of a Cuban American Baseball Star (Hardcover)
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Kat D. Williams traces Isabel "Lefty" Alvarez's life from her
childhood in Cuba, where she played baseball with the boys on the
streets of El Cerro, to her reinvention as a professional baseball
player and American citizen. Isabel "Lefty" Alvarez gives the
reader a look into Alvarez's young life in Cuba during the
turbulent years leading up to Castro's revolution, as political
differences tore families apart. Alvarez came to the United States
at fifteen, speaking no English, and experienced the challenge of
immigration as her mother pushed her to become a professional
athlete in her newly adopted country. Through all the changes and
upheaval, Alvarez found acceptance and success as a player in the
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, where she was
called "the Rascal of El Cerro." After the league ended, Alvarez
struggled with an undiagnosed learning disability that limited her
options. She persevered and reinvented herself as a factory worker
but later battled alcoholism and depression until baseball returned
to her life and she was able to reconnect with her former teammates
and become part of the active community of former players.
Alvarez's life story illustrates the struggle and strength of a
young Latina immigrant and the importance of sport to her
transition to her new country and her enduring identity.
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