Kat D Williams

Isabel "Lefty" Alvarez

The Improbable Life of a Cuban American Baseball Star

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Produktbeschreibung

Kat D. Williams traces Isabel “Lefty” Alvarez’s life from her childhood in Cuba to her reinvention of herself as a professional American baseball player, illuminating the importance of sport as a source of stability in a life defined by challenges.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 163mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781496218827
• ISBN-10: 1496218825
• Artikelnr.: 58019294

Autorenporträt

Kat D. Williams is a professor of American history at Marshall University. She is board president of the International Women’s Baseball Center and the author of The All-American Girls after the AAGPBL: How Playing Pro Ball Shaped Their Lives.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations    
Preface    
Acknowledgments    
Introduction    
Chapter 1. El Cerro    
Chapter 2. Refashioning Lefty    
Chapter 3. The Passion of the Island    
Chapter 4. Coming to America    
Chapter 5. Life after the League    
Chapter 6. A League of Her Own    
Epilogue    
Appendix I. Lefty Alvarez Baseball Statistics    
Appendix II. Women’s Baseball Time Line    
Notes    
Bibliography    
Index