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The Veracruz Blues - Mark Winegardner

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Manufacturer : Viking Adult
Release date : 1 February 1996
ISBN-10 : 0670866369 | ISBN-13 : 9780670866366
Fiction (1), Baseball (1)

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"The Veracruz Blues"

Posted : 1 year, 9 months ago at Feb 27 10:55
Thanks to Publishers Weekly and Amazon.Com, here is a brief synopsis of the novel first: --- Using real names and events, Winegardner playfully recounts how in 1946 one quixotic man nearly established a third, fully integrated major baseball league in Mexico. In 1994, the year without a World Series, aging baseball reporter Frank Bullinger Jr. sets out to write about “The Season of Gold” of 1946. Although Bullinger shapes the story, he frequently steps aside for chapters told by others: Theolic “Fireball” Smith, an acerbic black pitcher; Roberto Ortiz, a Cuban power hitter; and the Bronx’s own Danny Gardella, a first-baseman who claims to have “caught” manic depression from a neighborhood kid named Rocco. Together, this Babel of voices tells how wealthy Mexican industri...Read more

Rating : 6/10