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The Mexican League / La Liga Mexicana

Author : Pedro Treto Cisneros
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476611521
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Mexican League / La Liga Mexicana written by Pedro Treto Cisneros and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-10-17 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While scholars disagree on where and when baseball was first played in Mexico, it's clear that the game quickly became popular--and stayed that way. The Mexican Baseball League was established in 1925 and continues in operation today. This bilingual text provides a complete statistical record for every player in the Mexican league since its inception. Also provided is information on top performing players and teams, the development of baseball in Mexico, the 85 Mexicans who have played in America's major leagues, and the Mexican Baseball Hall of Fame. A pesar de que los estudiosos todavia no se han puesto de acuerdo acerca de donde y cuando se jugo el primer partido de beisbol en Mexico, esta claro que este deporte se convirtio rapidamente en un pasatiempo muy popular--y aun lo es. De hecho, la Liga Mexicana de Beisbol data de 1925, pero sigue vigente hoy. Este texto bilingue proporciona un registro estadistico completo de cada jugador de la liga Mexicana desde sus comienzos hasta el presente. Se ofrece al lector, ademas, informacion sobre los mejores jugadores y equipos, el desarrollo del beisbol en Mexico, los 85 mexicanos que han jugado en las grandes ligas de los Estados Unidos, y los miembros del salon de la fama Mexicana.

The Pitcher and the Dictator

Author : Averell "Ace" Smith
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496206711
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book The Pitcher and the Dictator written by Averell "Ace" Smith and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-04-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon after Satchel Paige arrived at spring training in 1937 to pitch for the Pittsburgh Crawfords, he and five of his teammates, including Josh Gibson and Cool Papa Bell, were lured to the Dominican Republic with the promise of easy money to play a short baseball tournament in support of the country’s dictator, Rafael Trujillo. As it turned out, the money wasn’t so easy. After Paige and his friends arrived on the island, they found themselves under the thumb of Trujillo, known by Dominicans for murdering those who disappointed him. In the initial games, the Ciudad Trujillo all-star team floundered. Living outside the shadow of segregation, Satchel and his recruits spent their nights carousing and their days dropping close games to their rivals, who were also stocked with great players. Desperate to restore discipline, Trujillo tapped the leader of his death squads to become part of the team management. The American players believed they might be lined up and shot if they lost the tournament. When Paige’s team ultimately rallied to win, it barely registered with Trujillo, who a few months later ordered the killings of fifteen thousand Haitians at the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Paige and his teammates returned to the states to face banishment from the Negro Leagues, but ironically they barnstormed across America wearing their Trujillo All-Stars uniforms. The Pitcher and the Dictator is an extraordinary story of race, politics, and some of the greatest baseball players ever assembled, playing high-stakes baseball in support of one of the Caribbean’s cruelest dictators. For more information about The Pitcher and the Dictator, visit thepitcherandthedictator.com.

Dictionary of Latino Civil Rights History

Author : Francisco Arturo Rosales
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
ISBN 13 : 9781611920390
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Latino Civil Rights History written by Francisco Arturo Rosales and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first-ever dictionary of important issues in the U.S. Latino struggle for civil rights defines a wide-ranging list of key terms.

The Quest for Tejano Identity in San Antonio, Texas, 1913-2000

Author : Richard Buitron
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135931852
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Book Synopsis The Quest for Tejano Identity in San Antonio, Texas, 1913-2000 by : Richard Buitron

Download or read book The Quest for Tejano Identity in San Antonio, Texas, 1913-2000 written by Richard Buitron and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Quest for Tejano Identity was written as a study of Mexican American consciousness, and a history of the assumptions and intellectual responses of Mexican Americans in south Texas. The work uses history to inquire why different ethnic groups think, act and speak as they do as they encounter American society.

The Right Words at the Right Time

Author : Marlo Thomas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780743446501
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book The Right Words at the Right Time written by Marlo Thomas and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-01-06 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For everyone who needs a hero or loves a good story, here is an inspiring collection of personal revelations from more than 100 remarkable men and women who share a moment when words changed their lives"--Jacket.

News for All the People

Author : Joseph Torres
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781684243
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book News for All the People written by Joseph Torres and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From colonial newspapers to the Internet age, America's racial divisions have played a central role in the creation of the country's media system, just as the media has contributed to-and every so often, combated-racial oppression. This acclaimed book-called a "masterpiece" by the esteemed scholar Robert W. McChesney and chosen as one of 2011's best books by the Progressive-reveals how racial segregation distorted the information Americans have received, even as it depicts the struggle of Black, Latino, Asian, and Native American journalists who fought to create a vibrant yet little-known alternative, democratic press. Written in an exciting, story-driven style and replete with memorable portraits of journalists, both famous and obscure, News for All the People is destined to become the standard history of the American media.

Baseball on the Border

Author : Alan M. Klein
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400884527
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Baseball on the Border written by Alan M. Klein and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1985 to 1994 there existed a significant but unheralded experiment in professional baseball. For ten seasons, the Tecolotes de los Dos Laredos (The Owls of the Two Laredos) were the only team in professional sports to represent two nations. Playing in the storied Mexican League (an AAA affiliate of major league baseball), the "Tecos" had home parks on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, in Laredo, Texas and in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. In true border fashion, Mexican and American national anthems were played before each game, and the Tecos were operated by interests in both cities. Baseball on the Border is the story of the rise and unexpected demise of this surprising team. For Alan Klein, a cultural anthropologist specializing in sport, "the border" is almost a nation of its own. Having formed teams of players from both sides of the Rio Grande for almost a century, organizers and followers of the "Border Birds" often join forces but just as frequently squabble with each other in a chronic border tension. Throughout the book, Klein includes firsthand observations of the team and descriptions of its players. Readers will meet Dan Firova, the Tecos' beleaguered manager, a border-region native who nevertheless finds himself a target of the Mexican media. The "Ugly American," Willie Waite, is a young pitcher whose stunning success does nothing to diminish the disdain he has for his Mexican teammates. Ernesto Barraza, "The Trickster," once threw a no-hitter on only seventy-three pitches (on April Fool's Day, appropriately enough), but occasionally shows up at the park missing part of his uniform. And then there is Andres Mora, an aged slugger who, despite three seasons in major league baseball and a life of personal excesses, came within a few home runs of setting the all-time Mexican League record. This is just part of the roster of the Tecos and only a fraction of the lineup of Baseball on the Border. Anyone with an interest in baseball will be enlightened and entertained by this informative book.

The Palgrave Biographical Encyclopedia of Psychology in Latin America

Author : Ana Maria Jacó-Vilela
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030567818
Total Pages : 1417 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Biographical Encyclopedia of Psychology in Latin America written by Ana Maria Jacó-Vilela and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-19 with total page 1417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biographical encyclopedia will provide the first comprehensive reference work on leading scholars and professionals who have contributed to the development and institutionalization of psychology in Latin America. The figures biographed will include scholars who have made a significant theoretical contribution to the discipline, as well as, practitioners and those who have contributed to the institutionalization of psychology, through their work in scientific organisations, professional bodies and publications. All persons included are recognized authorities and either natives of, or long-term residents in the region. It will offer an invaluable reference point, in particular for scholars of the history of psychology, Latin American studies, the history of science, and global psychology; as well as for historians, psychologists and social scientists seeking international perspectives on the development of the discipline.

Right-wing Women

Author : Paola Bacchetta
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415927772
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (277 download)

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Download or read book Right-wing Women written by Paola Bacchetta and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Business Year: Mexico 2020

Author : Peter Howson
Publisher : The Business Year
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Business Year: Mexico 2020 written by Peter Howson and published by The Business Year. This book was released on with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Business Year: Mexico 2020 is a comprehensive examination of Latin America's second largest economy during an unprecedented period of uncertainty and change. To understand how this economy performed during this period and how it might recover, we conducted a year-long investigation that includes interviews with the top executives and officials from the public and private sectors.

Democratization and Memories of Violence

Author : Mneesha Gellman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317358317
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Democratization and Memories of Violence written by Mneesha Gellman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnic minority communities make claims for cultural rights from states in different ways depending on how governments include them in policies and practices of accommodation or assimilation. However, institutional explanations don’t tell the whole story, as individuals and communities also protest, using emotionally compelling narratives about past wrongs to justify their claims for new rights protections. Democratization and Memories of Violence: Ethnic minority rights movements in Mexico, Turkey, and El Salvador examines how ethnic minority communities use memories of state and paramilitary violence to shame states into cooperating with minority cultural agendas such as the right to mother tongue education. Shaming and claiming is a social movement tactic that binds historic violence to contemporary citizenship. Combining theory with empirics, the book accounts for how democratization shapes citizen experiences of interest representation and how memorialization processes challenge state regimes of forgetting at local, state, and international levels. Democratization and Memories of Violence draws on six case studies in Mexico, Turkey, and El Salvador to show how memory-based narratives serve as emotionally salient leverage for marginalized communities to facilitate state consideration of minority rights agendas. This book will be of interest to postgraduates and researchers in comparative politics, development studies, sociology, international studies, peace and conflict studies and area studies.

Soccer's Neoliberal Pitch

Author : John M. Sloop
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817361022
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Soccer's Neoliberal Pitch written by John M. Sloop and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "American sports agnostics might raise an eyebrow at the idea that soccer represents a staging ground for progressive cultural, social, and political possibility within the United States. It is just another game, after all, in a society where mass-audience spectator sport largely avoids any political stance in other than a generic, corporate-friendly patriotism. But John Sloop picks up on the work of Laurent Dubois and others to see in American soccer-a sport that has achieved immense participation and popularity even as it struggles to establish major league status-a game that permits surprisingly diverse modes of thinking about national identity because of its marginality. As a rhetorician who engages with both critical theory and culture, John Sloop seeks to read soccer as the game intersects with gender, race, sexuality, class, and the logic of neoliberal values. The result of this engagement is a sense of both enormous possibility, and real constraint. If American soccer offers more possibility because of its marginality, looking at how these cultural, social, and political possibilities are closed off or constrained can provide valuable insights into American culture and values. In Soccer's Neoliberal Pitch, Sloop analyzes a host of soccer-adjacent case studies: the equal pay dispute between the US women's national team and the US Soccer Federation, the significance of hooligan literature, the introduction of English soccer to American TV audiences, the strange invisibility of the Mexican soccer league despite its consistent high TV ratings, and the reading of US national teams as "underdogs" despite the nation's quasi-imperial dominance of the Western hemisphere. While there is a growing bookshelf of titles on soccer and a growing number on American soccer, Soccer's Neoliberal Pitch is the first and only book-length analysis of soccer through a rhetorical lens. This book is a model for critical cultural work with sports, with appeal to not only sports studies, but cultural studies, communication, and even gender studies classrooms. It is, independent of its bona fides, an engaging and enjoyable read for the soccer fan and the soccer-curious"--

For Soccer-Crazy Girls Only

Author : Erin Downing
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
ISBN 13 : 1250064201
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book For Soccer-Crazy Girls Only written by Erin Downing and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever felt like your soccer team is a second family? Then you're definitely soccer-crazy . . . and this book is definitely for you! From training techniques formations and strategies—For Soccer-Crazy Girls has it all! "To be a great soccer player, you must be in love with the game." – Mia Hamm Do you love lacing up your cleats for the first game of the season—and do you love it even more when they're caked with mud after the game? Are there many nights when you dream about kicking the ball, and watching as it soars through the air toward the goal? Would your perfect day include hours on the soccer field? Do you love to watch people play, soaking up everything you can from other soccer-crazy players? If so, this is the book for you!

Deportes

Author : José M Alamillo
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 197881366X
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)

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Download or read book Deportes written by José M Alamillo and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deportes uncovers the hidden experiences of Mexican male and female athletes, teams and leagues and their supporters who fought for a more level playing field on both sides of the border. They proved that they could compete in a wide variety of sports at amateur, semiprofessional, Olympic and professional levels.

Mexico's Dilemma

Author : Roberto Newell G.
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429725868
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Mexico's Dilemma written by Roberto Newell G. and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the crisis Mexico experienced in 1982 on the basis of the historical evolution of Mexico's political and economic structures. The author’s purpose in writing this book is to provide an interpretation of Mexico's current problems in order to analyze what must be done to solve some profound dilemmas and to restructure Mexican society. The main dilemma Mexico faces is its vanishing consensus.

Historical Dictionary of Baseball

Author : Lyle Spatz
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810879549
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Baseball written by Lyle Spatz and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012-12-21 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dating back to 1869 as an organized professional sport, the game of baseball is not only the oldest professional sport in North America, but also symbolizes much more. Walt Whitman described it as “our game, the American game,” and George Will compared calling baseball “just a game” to the Grand Canyon being “just a hole.” Countless others have called baseball “the most elegant game,” and to those who have played it, it’s life. The Historical Dictionary of Baseball is primarily devoted to the major leagues it also includes entries on the minor leagues, the Negro Leagues, women’s baseball, baseball in various other countries, and other non-major league related topics. It traces baseball, in general, and these topics individually, from their beginnings up to the present. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 900 cross-referenced entries on the roles of the players on the field—batters, pitchers, fielders—as well as non-playing personnel—general managers, managers, coaches, and umpires. There are also entries for individual teams and leagues, stadiums and ballparks, the role of the draft and reserve clause, and baseball’s rules, and statistical categories. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the sport of baseball.

Think Tanks and Global Politics

Author : Alejandra Salas-Porras
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137567562
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Think Tanks and Global Politics written by Alejandra Salas-Porras and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-30 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides a cutting edge analysis of the increasingly central role think tanks play in societies worldwide. Examining their control of global resources both in economic and political policy fields and their inroads into structures of power, it addresses key questions. How have think thanks reached these positions of power? Has the northern core produced neoliberal clones that have hydra-like colonised the globe? Who funds and controls these think tanks and for what purpose? How is policy making knowledge created? How are new policy ideas propagated and validated? How do think tanks become dominant sources of knowledge in public spheres including the media? Exploring the dynamics of think tank networks in specific regions and countries, this book considers the coalitions they generate to advance the social purpose they endorse and, in particular, the spaces they occupy in the structures and fields of power at the national, regional and global level.