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Early Latino Ballplayers in the United States - Major, Minor and Negro Leagues, 1901-1949 (Paperback)
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Early Latino Ballplayers in the United States - Major, Minor and Negro Leagues, 1901-1949 (Paperback)
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On the average major league roster, Hispanic or Latin-born players
today account for at least 25 percent of the team. In 1900 there
were none; in 1911 the number had crept to two; and after World War
II when American GI's returned to the playing fields, there was,
for a brief time, only one Latino in the major leagues. From 1900
through the 1940s early Latino players suffered discrimination,
poor accommodations, low pay and homesickness to play a game they
loved. Those who were both talented and light-skinned enough to
make it to the majors were mocked for their foreign-ness. Those in
the Negro Leagues were, like African American ballplayers,
segregated and largely ignored by the public and major league
scouts. Building on what we know about the careers of these pioneer
players, Nick Wilson draws on primary documents and interviews to
round out our knowledge of them as people. Organised by decade,
this book presents new information on the players who came before
baseball's great Latin explosion. Profiled here are Rafael Almeida,
Jose Mendez, Miguel Gonzalez, Luis Tiant, Sr., Martin Dihigo,
Armando Marsans, Rodolfo Fernandez, Roberto Ortiz, Adolfo Luque,
Cristobal Torriente, Hiram Bithorn and Pedro ""Preston"" Gomez, and
many others. An appendix on Americans who influenced the Latin
migration is also included.
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