The Eastern stars : how baseball changed the Dominican town of San Pedro de Macorís / Mark Kurlansky.
Kurlansky, Mark.
2010
GV863.29.D65 K87 2010 (Mapit)
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Title The Eastern stars : how baseball changed the Dominican town of San Pedro de Macorís / Mark Kurlansky.
Author Kurlansky, Mark.
ISBN 9781594487507
1594487502
Publication Details New York : Riverhead Books, 2010.
Language English
Description 272 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number GV863.29.D65 K87 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 796.35707293/82
Summary Examines the staggering amount of baseball talent that has originated in the impoverished area of San Pedro, in the Dominican Republic, and discovers wider meanings about place, identity, and, above all, baseball.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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pt. 1. Sugar. Like the trace of a kiss
The first question
The question of first
Who's on first
The first opening
San Pedro rising
Draft dodging
pt. 2. Dollars. The fourth incarnation of San Pedro
The city of baseball
Three three-brother families
The curse of the Eastern stars
San Pedro's black eye
Fickle judgment from the peanut gallery
Appendix 1 : The first seventy-nine: major league baseball players from San Pedro de Macoris
Appendix 2 : A Dominican chronology.

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