Cuban Star: How One Negro-League Owner Changed the Face of Baseball

by Adrian Burgos Jr.

Book Overview

In Cuban Star, an interpretive account of Alejandro "Alex" Pompez's life in context, Adrian Burgos, Jr. follows Pompez's--and baseball's--path through the twentieth century's changing social and racial landscape.

When the selection committee voted Alex Pompez into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006, some cried foul. A Negro-league owner during baseball's glory days, Pompez was known as an early and steadfast advocate for Latino...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809037203
• ISBN13: 9780809037209
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Hill & Wang
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.8"