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• Publisher : Grove Press
• File Size : 42,9 Mb
• Release Date : 01 May 2005

At the height of the World Series in 1958, the gambling empire of Meyer Lansky enjoys unprecedented profits much to the chagrin of rival mafia boss Joe Bonanno, who plots to

• Publisher : Phoenix
• File Size : 38,9 Mb
• Release Date : 02 June 2005

It's the 1958 baseball World Series, and more money is at stake than ever. For the first time for as long as anyone could remember the New York Yankees are the

• Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
• File Size : 34,6 Mb
• Release Date : 01 December 2007

A “dark, rich, and satisfying” novel of mobsters, baseball, and 1950s Cuba (Entertainment Weekly). It is the fall of 1958 and all of Cuba is riveted to the World Series—the

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 49,5 Mb
• Release Date : 24 May 2001

From the first amateur leagues of the 1860s to the exploits of Livan and Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez, here is the definitive history of baseball in Cuba. Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria

• Publisher : Diversion Books
• File Size : 38,5 Mb
• Release Date : 14 May 2019

A memoir by the mustachioed baseball pitcher who went playing rocky, trash-ridden fields in Castro’s Cuba to becoming a Boston Red Sox legend. Luis Tiant is one of the

• Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
• File Size : 54,6 Mb
• Release Date : 01 March 2019

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

• Publisher : Villard
• File Size : 31,9 Mb
• Release Date : 01 June 2001

In 1998, a mysterious right-handed pitcher emerged from the ashes of the Cold War and helped lead the New York Yankees to a World Championship. His origins and even his age

• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• File Size : 20,8 Mb
• Release Date : 07 December 2018

Baseball has been as much of a national pastime to Cuba as it has to the U.S., due in no small part to Fidel Castro’s love of the

• Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
• File Size : 51,9 Mb
• Release Date : 01 March 2019

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

• Publisher : McFarland
• File Size : 54,7 Mb
• Release Date : 29 November 2018

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