Kill the Ámpaya!
Subtitle: the best Latin American baseball fiction
By: edited and translated by Dick Cluster
Publisher: Mandel Vilar Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781942134268
Subjects: Spanish American Baseball stories; Spanish American fiction; Translations into English
Description: "These are stories we have lived. . . Some are funny, some cruel or violent, but in the end they are part of our culture that makes us act the way we do. They make me think of the millions of stories that got lost behind us." --Omar Vizquel, from Venezuela, one of baseball's all-time best fielding shortstops who played for the Seattle Mariners, Cleveland Indians, San Francisco Giants, Texas Rangers, Chicago White Sox, and Toronto Blue Jays.
Notes: Translated from the Spanish.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Swimming upstream  -- Eduardo del Llano; title: Sacrifice  -- Sandra Tavárez; title: Apparition in the brick factory  -- Sergio Ramírez; title: End of the game  -- Carmen Hernández Peña; title: The last voyage of Arcaya the shark  -- Rodrigo Blanco Calderón; title: The stadium  -- Arturo Arango; title: Braces  -- Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro; title: The real thing  -- Alexis Gómez Rosa; title: The Wall  -- Leonardo Padura; title: Winners and losers  -- Nan Chevalier; title: The strange game of the men in blue  -- José Bobadilla; title: Clock reaches the emperor's citadel  -- Rafael Acevedo; title: Big leagues  -- Salvador Fleján; title: How tomboy María learned she could fly  -- Daniel Reyes German; title: The glory of Mamporal  -- Andrés Eloy Blanco; title: A notorious home run  -- Cezanne Cardona; title: The pitcher  -- Marcial Gala; title: Aut at third -- Vicente Leñero.