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Summary: Very well done
Review: A historical synopsis of what is now the official garden of talent for the Major Leagues; Latin America.Ignites the importance of the Spanish American War - in baseball anyway.
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Summary: Baseball with that Latin kick
Review: Lengthy player profiles that don't just stop at their "American" baseball experiences are strategically placed within the text as the author skips from country to country across the Caribbean. It's not some sort of penetrating study and some of the chapters are quite brief but you do gain great insight into how much baseball is loved by the people of this region.
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Summary: Historical inaccuracies and typos equal a grand flop
Review: This effort is one of the most disappointment among the 100 or so baseball history titles that I have read in the past half-dozen years. The book is poorly edited and filled with literally hundreds of typographical errors. (Also the footnotes section at the end of the hardcover edition is simply eliminated from the end of the paperback, without corresponding adjustments in the text!) This factor is especially disappointing when it comes to the butchered names of dozens of Latin ballplayers. There are also numerous historical inaccuracies here. Hispaniola is not an island to the west of Cuba. Jackie Robinson was not called up to the Brooklyn Dodgers "not long after the 1947 began." Aluminum bats are not made in Cuba by the Batos company. And such errors go on and on. This book is a major disappointment when it comes to historical historical research.
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