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James Traub has two piece in this weekend’s Times: A critique of The Eastern Stars: How Baseball Changed the Dominican Town of San Pedro de MacorĂ­s, by Mark Kurlansky in the book review section (which the critic deems a “charming and finely observed, if somewhat formless, baseball travelogue”), and a profile of Yankees’ reliever Mariano [...]

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“One of the interesting things to me is that there’s such a long history of baseball in these places that preceded the interests of Major League baseball,” said author Adrian Burgos. “The game was there before MLB stepped onto the scene.” Burgos, an associate history professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, is the author [...]

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From the University of California press website.

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