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“T” is for Times…and Traub

July 3, 2010

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 Macorís, 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 […]

Tagged as: Latino baseball, Mariano Rivera, New York Yankees, Pitching

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* Author interview: Adrian Burgos, Jr.

September 14, 2008

“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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* Author interview: Adrian Burgos, Jr.

August 6, 2008

From the University of California press website.

Tagged as: Adrian Burgos, Latino baseball

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