TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kurlansky,Mark
TI  - The Eastern stars: how baseball changed the Dominican town of San Pedro de Macorís 
SN  - 9781594487507
AV  - 118 GV 863.29  K96e 2010
U1  - 796.35707293/82 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Riverhead Books
KW  - Baseball
KW  - Dominican Republic
KW  - San Pedro de Macorís
KW  - History
KW  - Béisbol
KW  - República Dominicana
KW  - Historia
KW  - Baseball players
N1  - 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
N2  - 	
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
ER  -