Havana hardball
Subtitle: spring training, Jackie Robinson, and the Cuban league
By: César Brioso
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780813061160
Subjects: Nineteen forties; Minorities in baseball; Baseball players; Baseball; History
Description: "Havana Hardball captures the excitement of the Cuban League's greatest pennant race and the anticipation of the looming challenge to MLB's color barrier. Illuminating one of the sport's most pivotal seasons, veteran journalist César Brioso brings together a rich mix of worlds as the heyday of Latino baseball converged with one of the most socially meaningful events in U.S. history,"--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-289) and index.
Table of contents: title: The year of Dick Sisler; title: Boxing Ernest Hemingway; title: Opening day, Havana; title: The American series; title: Living legends; title: Separate and unequal; title: Tale of two leagues; title: Hermit in Havana; title: New year's resurrection; title: Panama and the petition; title: Whoever defeats Almendares dies; title: Opening day, Brooklyn; title: A house united.