Bobby Maduro And The Cuban Sugar Kings

Author : Lou Hernández
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-29
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476675268

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Bobby Maduro and the Cuban Sugar Kings by Lou Hernández Pdf

Roberto "Bobby" Maduro (1916-1986) was a visionary baseball team owner and executive. His dedication to promoting the game internationally from the 1950s through the 1970s remains unrivaled. He headed Havana-based clubs in the Cuban Winter League and teams in the U.S. minor leagues, which helped brand Caribbean baseball in the eyes of North American fans. He co-built the first million-dollar ballpark in Latin America. His Havana stadium was confiscated by Castro's revolution, along with all his accumulated wealth. Maduro began a new life in exile in the U.S., first as a minor league owner, then as a front office executive. He founded the short-lived Inter-American League in 1979, composed of five Caribbean-basin teams and one U.S. entry from his adopted hometown of Miami. Commissioner Bowie Kuhn said of his many achievements, "No one was more dedicated, more knowledgeable or more concerned about the game than Bobby Maduro."

Author : Lou Hernández
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476634821

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Bobby Maduro and the Cuban Sugar Kings by Lou Hernández Pdf

 Roberto “Bobby” Maduro (1916–1986) was a visionary baseball team owner and executive. His dedication to promoting the game internationally from the 1950s through the 1970s remains unrivaled. He headed Havana-based clubs in the Cuban Winter League and teams in the U.S. minor leagues, which helped brand Caribbean baseball in the eyes of North American fans. He co-built the first million-dollar ballpark in Latin America. His Havana stadium was confiscated by Castro’s revolution, along with all his accumulated wealth. Maduro began a new life in exile in the U.S., first as a minor league owner, then as a front office executive. He founded the short-lived Inter-American League in 1979, composed of five Caribbean-basin teams and one U.S. entry from his adopted hometown of Miami. Commissioner Bowie Kuhn said of his many achievements, “No one was more dedicated, more knowledgeable or more concerned about the game than Bobby Maduro.”

Author : César Brioso
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781496213778

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Last Seasons in Havana by César Brioso Pdf

2020 SABR Baseball Research Award Last Seasons in Havana explores the intersection between Cuba and America's pastime from the late 1950s to the early 1960s, when Fidel Castro overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. César Brioso takes the reader through the triumph of the revolution in 1959 and its impact on professional baseball in the seasons immediately following Castro's rise to power. Baseball in pre?Castro Cuba was enjoying a golden age. The Cuban League, which had been founded in 1878, just two years after the formation of the National League, was thriving under the auspices of organized baseball. Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, players from the Major Leagues, Minor Leagues, and Negro Leagues had come to Cuba to play in the country's wholly integrated winter baseball league. Cuban teams had come to dominate the annual Caribbean Series tournament, and Havana had joined the highest levels of Minor League Baseball, fielding the Havana Sugar Kings of the Class AAA International League. Confidence was high that Havana might one day have a Major League team of its own. But professional baseball became one of the many victims of Castro's Communist revolution. American players stopped participating in the Cuban League, and Cuban teams moved to an amateur, state?sponsored model. Focusing on the final three seasons of the Cuban League (1958-61) and the final two seasons of the Havana Sugar Kings (1959-60), Last Seasons in Havana explores how Castro's rise to power forever altered Cuba and the course of a sport that had become ingrained in the island's culture over the course of almost a century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Sports
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007238780

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Arete by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Joseph Baker,John Martin Carroll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Sports
ISBN : UCSC:32106009962694

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Sports in Modern America by William Joseph Baker,John Martin Carroll Pdf

Author : John Thorn
Publisher : Scribner Book Company
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : PSU:000014428968

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The Armchair Book of Baseball II by John Thorn Pdf

Contains more than fifty pieces from the sport's best players, writers, and fans.

Author : Georgie Anne Geyer
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : IND:30000045067554

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Guerrilla Prince by Georgie Anne Geyer Pdf

Geyer reveals the untold story of Fidel Castro, based on hundreds of interviews conducted over many years in 28 countries, including extensive personal interviews with Castro himself. A new preface and an epilogue incorporate all of the changes since the book's original 1991 publication. Photos.

Author : Milton H. Jamail
Publisher : Bison Books
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015073915723

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Venezuelan Bust, Baseball Boom by Milton H. Jamail Pdf

Though Venezuela is sandwiched between two soccer-mad countries—Brazil and Colombia—baseball is its national pastime and passion. Yet until the late 1980s few professional teams actively scouted and developed players there. This book is about the man who changed all that and brought Venezuela into Major League Baseball in a major way. While other teams were looking to the Dominican Republic for new talent, Houston Astros' scout Andrés Reiner saw an untapped niche in Venezuela. Venezuelan Bust, Baseball Boom recounts how, over the next fifteen years, Reiner signed nearly one hundred players, nineteen of whom reached the majors. The stories of these players—among them Bobby Abreu, Johán Santana, Melvin Mora, Carlos Guillén, and Freddy García—are interwoven with Reiner’s own, together creating a fascinating portrait of a curious character in the annals of sports and a richly textured picture of the opening of Venezuela as baseball’s new frontier. Countless interviews broaden and deepen the story’s insights into how the scouting system works, how Reiner worked within it, and how his efforts have affected the sport of baseball in Venezuela and the significance of Venezuela in the world of Major League Baseball.

Author : Michael M. Oleksak,Mary Adams Oleksak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0940279355

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Béisbol by Michael M. Oleksak,Mary Adams Oleksak Pdf

Describes how players from south of the border broke down cultural, racial, and language barriers to survive and thrive in Major League baseball.

Author : Lou Hernández
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476652795

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Cookie Rojas by Lou Hernández Pdf

A professional baseball prospect given little chance of making the big time, Octavio "Cookie" Rojas nevertheless flourished at the sport's top level during a 16-year major league career. Never breaking ties with the profession he loved, after leaving the field as a player Rojas continued well into his 70s in the varied roles of coach, scout, manager, and broadcaster. Rojas broke into the big leagues in the early 1960s, a bygone era when there were only ten teams in each major league and the World Series was exclusively performed under the autumn sun. A native of Cuba, Rojas had to leave behind his country following the Cuban Revolution in order to pursue his ultimate baseball dreams. His side story of cultural assimilation, like those of his many ball-playing compatriots of the time, is a unique account of perseverance and dedication and a desire to succeed for himself and his family.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Latin America
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117256532

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ISLA by Anonim Pdf

Clippings of Latin American political, social and economic news from various English language newspapers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : America
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018614200

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Americas (English Ed.) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Mexican American athletes
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172119501490

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ProMex Sports by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Baseball
ISBN : UOM:39015051775180

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The National Pastime by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rachel Allison
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780813591315

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Kicking Center by Rachel Allison Pdf

Winner of the 2018 Early Career Gender Scholar Award from the Sociologists for Women in Society-South Girls and young women participate in soccer at record levels and the Women’s National Team regularly draws media, corporate, and popular attention. Yet despite increased representation and visibility, gender disparities in opportunity, compensation, training resources, and media airtime persist in soccer, and two professional leagues for women have failed since 2000. In Kicking Center, Rachel Allison investigates a women’s soccer league seeking to break into the male-dominated center of U.S. professional sport. Through an examination of the challenges and opportunities identified by those working for and with this league, she demonstrates how gender inequality is both constructed and contested in professional sport. Allison details the complex constructions of race, class, gender, and sexuality in the selling and marketing of women’s soccer in a half-changed sports landscape characterized by both progress and backlash, and where professional sports are still understood to be men’s territory.