Finding Baseball's Next Clemente: Combating Scandal in Latino Recruiting

by Roger Bruns and Roger A. Bruns

This book examines what it takes for Latino youngsters to beat the odds, overcoming cultural and racial barriers--and a corrupt recruitment system--to play professional baseball in the United States.

Latin Americans now comprise nearly 30 percent of the players in Major League Baseball (MLB). This provocative work looks at how young Latinos are recruited--and often exploited--and at the cultural, linguistic, and racial challenges...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1440830339
• ISBN13: 9781440830334
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 7 to 17 years