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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Kurlansky, Mark.
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Baseball -- Dominican Republic -- San Pedro de Macorís -- History.
Baseball players -- Dominican Republic -- San Pedro de Macorís -- History.
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The Eastern stars : ...
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The Eastern stars : how baseball changed the Dominican town of San Pedro de Macorís / Mark Kurlansky.
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Kurlansky, Mark.
New York : Riverhead Books, 2010.
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Baseball -- Dominican Republic -- San Pedro de Macorís -- History.
Baseball players -- Dominican Republic -- San Pedro de Macorís -- History.
ISBN:
9781594487507 :
1594487502
Description:
272 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
pt. 1. Sugar. Like the trace of a kiss -- The first question -- The question of first -- Who's on first -- The first opening -- San Pedro rising -- Draft dodging -- pt. 2. Dollars. The fourth incarnation of San Pedro -- The city of baseball -- Three three-brother families -- The curse of the Eastern stars -- San Pedro's black eye -- Fickle judgment from the peanut gallery -- Appendix 1 : The first seventy-nine: major league baseball players from San Pedro de Macoris -- Appendix 2 : A Dominican chronology.
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Examines the staggering amount of baseball talent that has originated in the impoverished area of San Pedro, in the Dominican Republic, and discovers wider meanings about place, identity, and, above all, baseball.
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Hawaii State Library
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796.35707 Ku
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Kailua-Kona Public Library
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796.35707 Ku
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