The Santurce Crabbers: Sixty Seasons of Puerto Rican Winter League Baseball

by Thomas E. Van Hyning

The first owner of the Santurce Crabbers, Pedrin Zorrilla, was a visionary, with many Negro League and big league contacts (he signed up Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige, Roy Campanella, Ray Dandridge and Leon Day in the first decade). Santurce was the most successful winter league team of the 1950s, with three Caribbean Series titles. Roberto Clemente, Ruben Gomez, Willie Mays, Willard Brown and Bob Thurman played for the Crabbers. Tom Lasorda used...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786438959
• ISBN13: 9780786438952
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher