Stealing lives the globalization of baseball and the tragic story of Alexis Quiroz /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
c2002.
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Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10083753 |
Table of Contents:
- 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
- "Papβa, 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.