The Eastern stars : how baseball changed the Dominican town of San Pedro de Macorís /

Kurlansky, Mark.

The Eastern stars : how baseball changed the Dominican town of San Pedro de Macorís / Mark Kurlansky. - New York : Riverhead Books, 2010. - 272 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-262) and index.

pt. 1. Sugar. Like the trace of a kiss --
The first question --
The question of first --
Who's on first --
The first opening --
San Pedro rising --
Draft dodging --
pt. 2. Dollars. The fourth incarnation of San Pedro --
The city of baseball --
Three three-brother families --
The curse of the Eastern stars --
San Pedro's black eye --
Fickle judgment from the peanut gallery --
Appendix 1 : The first seventy-nine: major league baseball players from San Pedro de Macoris --
Appendix 2 : A Dominican chronology.


Examines the staggering amount of baseball talent that has originated in the impoverished area of San Pedro, in the Dominican Republic, and discovers wider meanings about place, identity, and, above all, baseball.

9781594487507


Baseball--History.--Dominican Republic--San Pedro de Macorís
Béisbol--Historia--República Dominicana
Baseball players--History.--Dominican Republic--San Pedro de Macorís

118 GV 863.29 / K96e 2010

796.35707293/82