TY - BOOK ID - 77871126 TI - Playing America's game : baseball, Latinos, and the color line PY - 2007 SN - 0520940776 1282772201 9786612772207 1435603850 1433708817 9780520940772 9781435603851 9781433708817 9780520236462 0520236467 9780520251434 0520251431 9781282772205 6612772204 PB - Berkeley : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Hispanic American baseball players KW - Baseball KW - Racism in sports KW - Sports KW - Discrimination in sports KW - Baseball players, Hispanic American KW - Baseball players KW - History. KW - United States KW - Race relations. KW - Race question KW - Social problems KW - Sociology of sport KW - Hispanic American baseball players -- History.. KW - Baseball -- United States -- History.. KW - Racism in sports -- United States -- History.. KW - United States -- Race relations. KW - american sports. KW - athletes. KW - athletic. KW - baseball. KW - branch rickey. KW - equality. KW - hispanic american demographic studies. KW - history of baseball. KW - history of sports. KW - integration of baseball. KW - integration. KW - jackie robinson. KW - latino baseball players. KW - latinos. KW - minnie minoso. KW - orestes minoso. KW - organized baseball. KW - professional sports. KW - race in america. KW - racial distinctions. KW - racism in america. KW - retrospective. KW - roberto clemente. KW - sammy sosa. KW - sports. KW - the color line. KW - united states of america. KW - United States of America UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77871126 AB - Although largely ignored by historians of both baseball in general and the Negro leagues in particular, Latinos have been a significant presence in organized baseball from the beginning. In this benchmark study on Latinos and professional baseball from the 1880's to the present, Adrian Burgos tells a compelling story of the men who negotiated the color line at every turn-passing as "Spanish" in the major leagues or seeking respect and acceptance in the Negro leagues. Burgos draws on archival materials from the U.S., Cuba, and Puerto Rico, as well as Spanish- and English-language publications and interviews with Negro league and major league players. He demonstrates how the manipulation of racial distinctions that allowed management to recruit and sign Latino players provided a template for Brooklyn Dodgers' general manager Branch Rickey when he initiated the dismantling of the color line by signing Jackie Robinson in 1947. Burgos's extensive examination of Latino participation before and after Robinson's debut documents the ways in which inclusion did not signify equality and shows how notions of racialized difference have persisted for darker-skinned Latinos like Orestes ("Minnie") MiƱoso, Roberto Clemente, and Sammy Sosa. ER -