Baseball's great Hispanic pitchers
Subtitle: seventeen aces from the Major, Negro and Latin American Leagues
By: Lou Hernández
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Jefferson, North Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780786479757; 9781476615455
Subjects: Hispanic American baseball players; Biography; Pitchers (Baseball)
Description: "Baseball has had many outstanding Latin American pitchers since the early 20th century. This book profiles the greatest Hispanic hurlers to toe the rubber from the mounds of the major leagues, winter leagues and Negro leagues"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Outside the Major Leagues:  1. The Negro Leagues: Ramón Bragaña, Martín Dihigo; title: 2. The Latin American Leagues: Ramón Arano, Rubén Gómez, Orlando Hernández, Juan Pizarro; title: Part 2. The Major Leagues: 3. The 1920s and 1930s; Adolfo Luque; title: 4. The 1950s; Camilo Pascual; title: 5. The 1960s; Juan Marichal, Luis Tiant; title: 6. The 1970s; Mike Cuellar, Dennis Martínez; title: 7. The 1980s; Fernando Valenzuela; title: 8. The 1990s; Pedro Martínez; title: 9. The 2000s and 2010s; Mariano Rivera, Johan Santana, Félix Hernández; title: Rankings for the all-time great Hispanic pitchers.