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Peter C. Bjarkman - Cuba's Baseball Defectors

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Cuba's Baseball Defectors

2016

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7 No Reservations for Cuba S. 173-202

„… necessary to playmajor-league baseball.NO RESERVATIONS FOR CUBA 197* * *The ink was hardly dry on Yoan …” „… laboring in the American LeagueEastern Division basement.Iglesias, for his own part, seemed to thrive …” „… Drakulic, Café EuropaThe world of Cuban baseball was thrown open to numerous televisionviewers across North …”

8 Go East, Young Men, Go East S. 203-232

„… League Baseball decided to adopt the façade of internation-alizing the “American national pastime” with a …” „… from the AAA MexicanLeague or various less-prestigious European leagues where the Cubanshad previously …” „… months earlier with the shipping of afirst batch of veteran players to the Mexican League Campeche …”

Index S. 339-346

„… , 185Campeche Pirates baseball club (MexicanLeague), 211, 212, 214Can-Am League independent baseball …” „… , 206–208,209, 210, 211, 225, 251, 269Messersmith, Andy, 220, 248Mexican baseball wars: impact on CubanLeague …” „… priorities: contrastswith American capitalism, 62cubanidad, 32, 35, 50Cuban League baseball …”

Epilogue S. 253-272

„… impact of the“Cuban defector story” for both Cuban baseball (the apparent loser) andmajor league baseball …” „… long-standing reserve clause in the mid-1970s trulylaunched American big-league baseball’s apex era of financial …” „… systems. But then again hasn’t American big-league baseball al-ways been far more business than sport, and …”

Preface

„… direction and scope of winter league baseball hadbeen drastically altered forever. The summer Mexican …” „… socialist baseball experimentbut also of the all-powerful major league baseball (MLB) enterprise itself.In …” „… the corporateoperation known as major league baseball. Author Robert Whiting oncesagely noted that …”

1 The Essence of “Puigmania” S. 1-30

„… National League, thus became perhaps the mostpopular player in Japanese baseball annals, at least until …” „… was the seizure of cars, property, and bank accounts belonging toLazo and his Mexican baseball academy …” „… , Letters of TravelYasiel Puig exploded onto the big-league scene with a flare not wit-nessed perhaps since …”

2 Cuba’s Hidden “Béisbol Paradiso” S. 31-56

„… Pasquel’s summer Mexican League had a deep and unexpectednegative impact on Cuba’s winter season baseball …” „… ofEdenThe recent phenomenon of high-profile Cuban League baseball defec-tors that has so dominated headlines …” „… the Cuban National Amateur BaseballLeague active from 1914 through 1960) stretching across the entire …”

Appendix 2 S. 283-298

„… anxiously anticipated accord between the CubanBaseball Federation and Major League Baseball was no longer on …” „… Industriales Cardinals minor leagues37) Roberto Colina 1B 1996 Industriales Mexican League38) Francisco …” „… C 2005 Industriales Mexican League122) Reinier Bermúdez P 2005 Industriales Indians minor leagues123 …”

Notes S. 299-328

„… independent league baseball.23. Jorge L. Ortiz (“Hechevarria Reflects: Marlins Shortstop Recalls Harrow-ing …” „… Hoax”), 29–30.14. Gary Joseph Cieradkowski (The League of Outsider Baseball: An Illus-trated History of …” „… establishedduring the final two seasons of organized baseball’s professional winter league,which found him throwing …”

References and Sources S. 329-338

„… Color Barrier: How Jorge Pasquel and the Mexican League PushedBaseball toward Racial Integration …” „… University Press, 2008.Cieradkowski, Gary Joseph. The League of Outsider Baseball: An Illustrated History of …” „… , 1984.Klein, Alan M. Growing the Game: The Globalization of Major League Baseball. New Haven,CT: Yale …”

9 The Unsustainable Dream S. 233-252

„… better deals (now an unlikely scenario, but once seen with JorgePasquel’s Mexican League uprising in 1945 …” „… big-league owners. But the world of corporate management operating in therealm of organized baseball has …” „… test big-league baseball and, in the process, to demon-strate the high quality of the system that …”

5 Brothers in Exile S. 115-146

„… the North American big-league baseball scene. “It is nota game, it is a business” has long been a …” „… Hernández brothers had bothretired from the big-league baseball scene.The El Duque Hernández story would be …” „… Duque”—hadhimself been a considerable baseball talent in his youth. But a domestic-league career never went far for …”

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Stefan Rinke, Kay Schiller - The FIFA World Cup 1930 – 2010

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The FIFA World Cup 1930 – 2010

2014

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Joshua H. Nadel Cup of Welcome? Media, Marketing, Latinos, and the 1994 World Cup S. 298-317

„… League Soccer (MLS), promised by the US Soccer Federation to FIFA as a condition for granting the finals …” „… National Hockey League and the National Basketball Association, and fell just short of the average …” „… with 1 Jed Hughes, “NBA and NHL Get the Boot: MLS is the Third Most Attended Sports League in America …”

David Goldblatt Another Kind of History. Globalization, Global History and the World Cup S. 13-29

„… boxing, David Foster Wallace on tennis, Mark Twain and Robert Coover on baseball and Barbara Ehrenreich …” „… multi-stranded story of Cold War America begins with a baseball game. The final play-off in the long struggle …” „… for the 1951 National League pennant, played between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants …”

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Frank Russo - The Cooperstown Chronicles

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The Cooperstown Chronicles

2014

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5 Suicide Is Painless S. 169-212

„… baseball “purists” do not recognize the NationalAssociation (1871–1875) as a professional league, even …” „… in baseball. During his career, he relieved in 287 of his 343appearances, leading the National League …” „… weightlifter. A member of the baseball team, which wascoached by former major league pitcher Andy Coakley …”

4 Headhunters S. 129-168

„… Orioles.Malone retired from the game after the ’38 season with a MajorLeague Baseball record of 134–92, with a …” „… rumored that he was going to jump to theMexican League, but he signed with the Class D Clinton Blues of …” „… to play for thenewly formed Mexican League. The news was not a complete surpriseto Giant owner Horace …”

1 Bad to the Bone S. 1-40

„… worst in baseball history, dwarfingeven the ’62 Mets.National League ball in Cleveland ended when the …” „… LeagueBaseball’s ban on black players.BOSS SCHMIDT (1880–1932)Charles “Boss” Schmidt might have been the epitome of …” „… theGuaymas Ostioneros of the Mexican Winter League), coaching/manag-ing seemed like a natural fit. Since his …”

Index S. 283-288

„… and baseball, 5, 6, 16, 171–174, 22120, 35–38 Boston Bees, 67alcohol use/abuse, 41, 73–74 Boston …” „… Braves, 45, 77, 187, 269 Boston Players’ League Club, 45Ault, Doug, 193–197 Boston Red Sox comeback …” „… Merritt, Herm, 225 Perritt, Pol, 119Mexican leagues, 151, 196, 199 Pfeffer, Fred, 99Miller, “Hack”, 59 …”

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Stefan Alich - Das Recht der Verwertungsgesellschaften in Lateinamerika

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Das Recht der Verwertungsgesellschaften in Lateinamerika

Series: Schriftenreihe zum Wirtschaftsrecht Lateinamerikas

Volume 16 2010

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Literaturverzeichnis S. 553-584

„… the New Era of Major League Baseball, bepress Legal Series, 2006, Paper 1326 …” „… , http://works.bepress.com/spencer_gordon/1 (zitiert als Gordon, Final Offer Arbitration in the New Era of Major League Baseball, bepress …” „… ) --, "Mexican collection body fights royalty ruling", Billboard vom 25.12.1999–01.01.2000, Bd. 111/112, Ausgabe …”

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Jonathan Weeks - Latino Stars in Major League Baseball

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Latino Stars in Major League Baseball

2017

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6 Mexico S. 225-238

„… . Two Mexican League stadiumsCHAPTER 6228were named in his honor. He was elected to the Latino Baseball …” „… expanded dramatically with the inclusion of NegroLeague and Major League Baseball stars. In 1946 …” „… , millionaire JorgePasquel attempted to transform the Mexican League into a direct rivalof MLB. Numerous …”

5 Panama S. 203-224

„… eliminated in the qualifying round for the 2017 World BaseballClassic.Panama’s legacy in Major League …” „… baseball while playing for an amateur team in a provin-cial league. After turning pro with the independent …” „… failed to make the club out of spring training. Hecontinued in the Mexican League for one season before …”

4 Cuba S. 159-202

„… signing with Major LeagueBaseball teams. But the allure of money and freedom is a powerfulmotive for many …” „… charity golf tournaments as a member of the Major League Base-ball Players Alumni Association.Jose …” „… worked for the Angels’minor-league chain. In 1984, he was inducted into the Cuban BaseballHall of …”

Bibliography S. 265-272

„… ).———. “Mexican Baseball.” Mopupduty.com, February 13, 2007, http://mopupduty.com/mexican-baseball/ (retrieved …” „… . The Encyclopedia of Negro League Baseball. New York: Checkmark Books,2003.Luciano, Mike. “Julio …” „… , http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/cubs-maddon-on-manny-ramirez-as-coach-i-love-having-him-here/ (retrieved March 4, 2016).———. “Leaderboarding: Best Hitting Catchers in Baseball History …”

Index S. 273-282

„… Colombian Professional Baseball League,240Colon, Bartolo, Bio, 61–62Collins, Joe, 99Collins, Terry (manager …” „… , Andy, 258Venezuelan National Team, 117, 150Venezuelan Professional Baseball League,118, 126Venezuelan …” „… Baerga, Carlos, 38Balfour, Grant, 241Banks, Ernie, 78, 190Barnhill, Dave, 178Baseball Camps in Venezuela …”

1 The Dominican Republic S. 1-74

„… , and, as a result,the new league collapsed at season’s end. Professional baseball re-mained dormant in …” „… more than 30 farm teams with ties to Major League Base-ball franchises, has been a bountiful source of …” „… Professional Baseball Association in1989–1990. He later served as a minor-league coach for the Washing-ton …”

3 Venezuela S. 117-158

„… ” sport.In 1912, entrepreneur William H. Phelps opened a baseball shop inMaracaibo. He later formed a league …” „… Abreu during batting practice. In 2004, the slugger received Ma-jor League Baseball’s Roberto Clemente …” „… prominent in the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League,where his 97 long balls stood as a record until …”

2 Puerto Rico S. 75-116

„… (formerlyknown as the Puerto Rico Baseball League) is the top professionalcircuit on the island. Champions …” „… in the Puerto Rican WinterLeague and the Senior Professional Baseball Association. Putting hisCHAPTER …” „… Roberto Clemente’s Sports City complex. Laterstill, he made international trips for Major League Baseball …”

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