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“Latinos were not part of the conversation last April when baseball honored the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinsons major league debut. But a new book shows Latin America played an indispensable role in this black mans triumph over prejudice.
In “Playing Americas Game: Baseball, Latinos and the Color Line,” Adrian Burgos Jr. shows why its wrong to treat integration as solely an interplay between people white and black. Same goes for the conventional wisdom that baseball suddenly changed in 1947 when this grandson of a Georgia sharecropper took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers.”
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