Far from home
Subtitle: Latino baseball players in America
By: Tim Wendel, José Luis Villegas
Contributors: Villegas, José Luis; National Geographic Society (U.S.)
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9781426202162
Subjects: History; Hispanic American baseball players; Baseball; Pictorial works; Baseballspieler
Description: A photographic exploration of baseball and the Latin American world, describing the experiences of young men from Argentina, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, and throughout the Caribbean who come to the U.S. with dreams of scoring major league careers, looking at the fate of those who do not succeed, and profiling players who have won a big or small measure of fame.