César Brioso

Last Seasons in Havana

The Castro Revolution and the End of Professional Baseball in Cuba

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Produktbeschreibung

César Brioso¿is a digital producer and former baseball editor for¿USA Today Sports. In his twenty-five years as a sports journalist, he has written for the¿Miami Herald¿and the¿South Florida Sun-Sentinel. He is the author of¿ Havana Hardball: Spring Training, Jackie Robinson, and the Cuban League.¿ ¿

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 216mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781496205513
• ISBN-10: 1496205510
• Artikelnr.: 53166654

Autorenporträt

César Brioso is a digital producer and former baseball editor for USA Today Sports. In his twenty-five years as a sports journalist, he has written for the Miami Herald and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. He is the author of  Havana Hardball: Spring Training, Jackie Robinson, and the Cuban League.   

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The House That Bobby Built
2. Winds of Change
3. Golden Age
4. “This Was a Shipwreck”
5. Year of the Pitcher
6. New Year’s Revolution
7. Caribbean Spice
8. “Bullets Were Falling . . . Like Hailstones”
9. Title Town
10. Regarding Cienfuegos
11. The Last Series
12. International Tensions
13. The Last Season
14. Casualty of the Revolution
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index