Stealing lives [electronic resource] : the globalization of baseball and the tragic story of Alexis Quiroz / Arturo J. Marcano Guevara and David P. Fidle.
By: Marcano Guevara, Arturo J.
Contributor(s): Fidler, David P | ebrary, Inc.
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BookPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2002Description: 252 p. : 1 map.Subject(s): Quiroz, Alexis | Major League Baseball (Organization) -- Corrupt practices | Baseball players -- Recruiting -- Latin America | Baseball players -- Abuse of -- Latin America | Discrimination in sports -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 796.357/089/68 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-245) and index.
The "golden age" of Latin American baseball talent in major league baseball -- The globalization of baseball -- The structure and dynamics of major league baseball's recruitment of foreign baseball talent -- Exploitation and mistreatment in the global ballpark, the tragic story of Alexis Quiroz -- "Pap�a, I want to play baseball!" -- Going to Vietnam -- In baseball purgatory -- The Mesa miracle -- The Dominican disaster -- "That's just your story" -- The pursuit of justice goes terribly wrong -- Seventh-inning stretch, Chicago, New York, Maracay -- The final inning -- Repairing the global ballpark -- Human rights, labor standards, and major league baseball's exploitation of children in Latin America -- Global ballpark repair strategies.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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