TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ruck,Rob L.
TI  - The Tropic of Baseball: Baseball in the Dominican Republic
SN  - 9780803290150
AV  - GV863 .T767 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Lincoln
PB  - UNP - Bison Books
KW  - Baseball
KW  - Dominican Republic
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Introduction: Los Muchachos of Winter; Chapter 1: The Apostles of Baseball; Chapter 2: The Yankee Years; Chapter 3: Have Baseball-Will Travel; Chapter 4: Peloteros in the Banana Fields; Chapter 5: The Dominican Dandy; Chapter 6: The Winter Game; Chapter 7:Three Kings Day in Consuelo; Chapter 8: Mauricio, Padre José and Rico; Chapter 9: The City of Shortstops; Postscript: Season's End; Afterword; Index; Back Cover; 2; b
N2  - In a new afterword Rob Ruck looks at the current state of baseball in the country that has produced Sammy Sosa and many other major league stars
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