Stealing lives
Subtitle: the globalization of baseball and the tragic story of Alexis Quiroz
By: Arturo J. Marcano Guevara and David P. Fidler.
Contributors: Fidler, David P.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Quiroz, Alexis; Major League Baseball (Organization) -- Corrupt practices; Baseball players -- Recruiting -- Latin America; Baseball players -- Abuse of -- Latin America; Discrimination in sports -- United States
Description: "As a young boy growing up in Venezuela, Alexis Quiroz dreamed of playing in the Major Leagues. Alexis's dreams were like those of thousands of other boys in the Dominican Republic and Venezuela, and Major League teams encouraged such dreams by recruiting Latin children as young as 10 and 11 years old. Determined to become a big league player, Alexis finished high school early and dedicated himself to landing a contract with a Major League team.

Alexis signed with the Chicago Cubs in 1995 at age 17 and then began a harrowing ordeal of exploitation, mistreatment, and disrespect at the hands of the Chicago Cubs, including playing for the Cubs' Dominican Summer League team in appalling living conditions. His baseball career ended by an injury for which the Cubs provided inadequate medical treatment. Alexis pursued justice in the United States to ensure that what happened to him does not happen to other Venezuelan and dominican boys."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-245) and index.
Table of contents: title: The "golden age" of Latin American baseball talent in major league baseball; title: The globalization of baseball; title: The structure and dynamics of major league baseball's recruitment of foreign baseball talent; title: Exploitation and mistreatment in the global ballpark, the tragic story of Alexis Quiroz; title: "Papá, I want to play baseball!"; title: Going to Vietnam; title: In baseball purgatory; title: The Mesa miracle; title: The Dominican disaster; title: "That's just your story"; title: The pursuit of justice goes terribly wrong; title: Seventh-inning stretch, Chicago, New York, Maracay; title: The final inning; title: Repairing the global ballpark; title: Human rights, labor standards, and major league baseball's exploitation of children in Latin  America; title: Global ballpark repair strategies.