Ebook {Epub PDF} The Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban Baseball by Roberto González Echevarría

 · Echevarria, a literary critic and professor of Hispanic and comparative literature at Yale, has written a definitive cultural history of Cuban baseball from to the present. A former semi-pro Reviews: 1. "The Pride of Havana is a massively detailed chronicle of the history of baseball in Cuba, written with the passion of a fan of the country and of the game. Gonzalez Echevarria makes a convincing case that America'a national pastime is also Cuba's national pastime."—Marty Linsky, Wilson QuarterlyBrand: Oxford University Press.  · Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria expertly traces the arc of the game, intertwining its heroes and their stories with the politics, music, dance, and .

baseball in Cuba, which would be la pelota libre (free baseball)" (p. ). Much of the history of baseball in Cuba since turns on this distinction. The fact that ten-sions with the United States were an important factor in Cuban baseball after the Revolution did not provoke a crisis until the early s, when the economic hard-. Get this from a library! The pride of Havana: a history of Cuban baseball. [Roberto González Echevarría] -- From the first amateur leagues of the s to the exploits of Livan and Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez, this text is a comprehensive history of baseball in Cuba. The book traces the arc of the game. The Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban Baseball. By Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria. pp, Oxford University Press, Purchase. Whatever Fidel Castro has done for Cuba, his revolution has unintentionally given the United States an extraordinary generation of Cuban American scholars. Two of the most gifted have just produced masterworks that.

Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria expertly traces the arc of the game, intertwining its heroes and their stories with the politics, music, dance, and literature of the Cuban people. What emerges is more. Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria expertly traces the arc of the game, intertwining its heroes and their stories with the politics, music, dance, and literature of the Cuban people. What emerges is more than a story of balls and From the first amateur leagues of the s to the exploits of Livan and Orlando El Duque Hernandez, here is the definitive history of baseball in Cuba. The Pride of Havana. CHAPTER ONE. The Pride of Havana. A History of Cuban Baseball. By ROBERTO GONZÁLEZ ECHEVARRÍA. Oxford University Press. Read the Review. First Pitch. Alonso de Ojeda, one of.