Stealing lives : the globalization of baseball and the tragic story of Alexis Quiroz / / Arturo J. Marcano Guevara and David P. Fidle.
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| Year of Publication: | 2002 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 252 p. :; 1 map. |
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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
- "Papa, 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.