The Quality of Home Runs: The Passion, Politics, and Language of Cuban Baseball

by Thomas F. Carter

Book Overview

In parks and cafes, homes and stadium stands, Cubans talk baseball. Thomas F. Carter contends that when they are analyzing and debating plays, games, teams, and athletes, Cubans are exchanging ideas not just about baseball but also about Cuba and cubanidad, or what it means to be Cuban. The Quality of Home Runs is Carter's lively ethnographic exploration of the interconnections between baseball and Cuban identity. Suggesting that baseball...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822342766
• ISBN13: 9780822342762
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.8"