In his comprehensive and vibrant picture of baseball in Cuba, Milton H. Jamail explores the sport s relationship to U.S. baseball. Jamail, whose personal love of the game matches that of the Cubans, examines the roots and traditions of baseball on the island and explains why Cubans play such excellent baseball. His analysis of the development of Cuban baseball after the 1959 takeover by Fidel Castro includes a detailed description of the formation of the Cuban amateur baseball system that has dominated international competitions for more than three decades.
Before 1961, when the U.S....
In his comprehensive and vibrant picture of baseball in Cuba, Milton H. Jamail explores the sport s relationship to U.S. baseball. Jamail, whose pe...
"Dead Balls and Double Curves: An Anthology of Early Baseball Fiction "collects twenty-two classic stories from baseball s youth, presented in chronological order to capture the development of this most American of sports. Many of these tales have never before been reprinted, adding historical value to the rich literary merits of this anthology.
Editor Trey Strecker s collection begins with an informal village match in an excerpt from James Fenimore Cooper s "Home as Found "(1838), published the year prior to Abner Doubleday s alleged invention of the game outside Cooperstown, New York,...
"Dead Balls and Double Curves: An Anthology of Early Baseball Fiction "collects twenty-two classic stories from baseball s youth, presented in chro...