The Duke Of Havana
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The Duke Of Havana
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Author : Steve Fainaru
language : en
Publisher: Villard
Release Date : 2001-06-01
The Duke Of Havana written by Steve Fainaru and has been published by Villard this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-06-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
In 1998, a mysterious right-handed pitcher emerged from the ashes of the Cold War and helped lead the New York Yankees to a World Championship. His origins and even his age were uncertain. His name was Orlando El Duque Hernandez. He was a fallen hero of Fidel Castro's socialist revolution. The chronicle of El Duque's triumph is at once a window into the slow death of Cuban socialism and one of the most remarkable sports stories of all time. Once hailed as a paragon of Castro's revolution, the finest pitcher in modern Cuban history was banned from baseball for life for allegedly plotting to defect. Instead of accepting his punishment, he fearlessly fought back, defying the Communist party authorities, vowing to pitch again, and ultimately fleeing his country in the bowels of a thirty-foot fishing boat. Here, for the first time and in astonishing detail, the secrets behind El Duque's persecution and escape are revealed. Moving from the crumbling streets of post Cold War Havana to the polarized world of exile Miami, from the deadly Florida Straits to the hallowed grounds of Yankee Stadium, it is a story of cloak-and-dagger adventure, audacious secret plots, the pull of big money, and the historic collision of ideologies. Present throughout are the larger-than-life characters who converged at this bizarre intersection of baseball and politics: El Duque himself, Fidel Castro, the Miami sports agent Joe Cubas, the late John Cardinal O'Connor along with scouts, smugglers, and the Cuban ballplayers who gave up their lives as tools of socialism to test the free market and chase their major-league dreams. Reported in the United States and Cuba by two award-winning journalists who became part of the story they were covering, The Duke of Havana is a riveting saga of sports, politics, liberation, and greed.
Buena Vista In The Club
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Author : Geoffrey Baker
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2011-04-14
Buena Vista In The Club written by Geoffrey Baker and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-14 with History categories.
Geoffrey Baker traces the trajectory of the Havana hip hop scene from the late 1980s to the present and analyzes its partial eclipse by reggaet&ón.
History Of Havana
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Author : Dick Cluster
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-03-13
History Of Havana written by Dick Cluster and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-13 with Havana (Cuba) categories.
Havana Beyond The Ruins
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Author : Anke Birkenmaier
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2011-08-10
Havana Beyond The Ruins written by Anke Birkenmaier and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-10 with Architecture categories.
Looks at portrayals of Havana in literature, music, and the visual arts in the post-Soviet era, as the city is reinvented as a destination for international tourists and business ventures.
The Legend Of Willie Mickey The Duke
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Author : Howard Burman
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2022-11-07
The Legend Of Willie Mickey The Duke written by Howard Burman and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-07 with Sports & Recreation categories.
During the 1950s, they played centerfield in New York ballparks only a few miles apart. The comparisons were inevitable. From Brooklyn soda fountains to Queens street corners to Manhattan boardrooms, the argument raged: who was the greatest—Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, or Duke Snider? The trajectories of their lives were similar. They were born into the game and taught by their baseball-playing fathers at an early age. All three dreamed of baseball greatness—dreams that came at a cost. When they signed to play professional baseball, they were each hyped to become the greatest players in the game. The pressure to live up to these expectations took a heavy toll on them. The story of Willie, Mickey & the Duke is the story of three superb athletes who became baseball legends--what it did for them and what it did to them.
Muscular Christianity And The Colonial And Post Colonial World
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Author : John J. Macaloon
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-09-13
Muscular Christianity And The Colonial And Post Colonial World written by John J. Macaloon and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-13 with Sports & Recreation categories.
This Volume explores the enormous impact the ethos of Muscular Christianity has had an on modern civil society in English-speaking nations and among the peoples they colonized. First codified by British Christian Socialists in the mid-nineteenth century, explicitly religious forms of the ideology have persistently re-emerged over ensuing decades: secularized, essentialized, and normalized versions of the ethos - the public school spirit, the games ethic, moral masculinity, the strenuous life - came to dominate and to spread rapidly across class, status, and gender lines. These developments have been appropriated by the state to support imperial military and colonial projects. Late nineteenth and early twentieth century apologists and critics alike widely understood Muscular Christianity to be a key engine of British colonialism. This text demonstrates the need to re-evaluate the entire history of Muscular Christianity comes chiefly from contemporary post-colonial studies. The papers explore fascinating case materials from Canada, the U.S., India, Japan, Papua, New Guinea, the Spanish Caribbean, and in Britain in a joint effort to outline a truly international, post-colonial sport history. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
Baseball Beyond Our Borders
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Author : George Gmelch
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2017-03-01
Baseball Beyond Our Borders written by George Gmelch and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Baseball Beyond Our Borders celebrates the globalization of the game while highlighting the different histories and cultures of the nations in which the sport is played. This collection of essays tells the story of America's national pastime as it has spread across the world and undergone instructive, entertaining, and sometimes quirky changes in the process. Covering nineteen countries and a U.S. territory, the contributors show how each country imported baseball, how baseball took hold and developed, how it is organized, played, and followed, and what local and regional traits tell us about the sport's place in each culture. But what lies in store as baseball's passport fills up with far-flung stamps? Will the international migration of players homogenize baseball? What role will the World Baseball Classic play? These are just a few of the questions the authors pose.
Reborn As Problematic Duke S Daughter
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Author : Wintersnow
language : en
Publisher: Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd
Release Date :
Reborn As Problematic Duke S Daughter written by Wintersnow and has been published by Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
This is book 1 of Reborn as Problematic Duke's Daughter. Because committed a grave sin, Ji Eun has to be reborn to be the problematic Duke's Daughter and restore her reputation as the punishment! And who said being Duke's Daughter is easy?
Beyond The Walled City
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Author : Guadalupe Garcia
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2016
Beyond The Walled City written by Guadalupe Garcia and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with History categories.
"Once one of the most important port cities in the New World, Havana was a model for the planning and construction of other colonial cities. This book tells the story of how Havana was conceived, built, and managed and explores the relationship between colonial empire and urbanization in the Americas. Guadalupe García shows how the policing of urban life and public space by imperial authorities from the sixteenth century onward was explicitly centered on politics of racial exclusion and social control. She illustrates the importance of colonial ideologies in the production of urban space and the centrality of race and racial exclusion as an organizing ideology of urban life in Havana. Beyond the Walled City connects colonial urban practices to contemporary debates on urbanization, the policing of public spaces, and the urban dislocation of black and ethnic populations across the region"--Provided by publisher.
America S Game S
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Author : Benjamin Eastman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007-12-12
America S Game S written by Benjamin Eastman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-12 with History categories.
This book considers how to locate America in the sporting world and howAmerican Sport should reflect the vast networks of expertise, finance, and performance moving out from American athletic body as well as the influx of talent coming from abroad.