Two items on Playing America’s Game: Baseball, Latinos and the Color Line, by Adrian Burgos Jr. ( University of California Press).
The San Francisco Giants had several distinguihsed Latinos on the roster since they arrived in California in 1957, including Juan Maricahl, Orlando Cepeda, Jose Pagan, and the Alou Brothers, so it is fitting that the San Francisco Chronicle notes the city’s place in history in this “superb and, in many ways, pathbreaking history of Latinos in professional baseball,” crediting the success of the franchise to Alejandro “Alex” Pompez, a Cuban-American scout and former Negro League executive.
Newreads.blogspot.com has a brief item, based on a press release from the publisher.
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