I first thought about bringing these links together a long time ago when Spike TV announced that they were doing a special on Latinos in baseball. But then I more seriously started to look for link in early March, but then didn't really work much on it until now. To be honest, I'm not a big sports fan but I figured it would be interesting to see what was out there. Obviously alot of the Latinos in baseball are Afro-Latino which raises some interesting questions. But the last straw which finally got my butt in gear was just the fact that Cuba made it to the final game of the World Baseball Classic (and lost, unfortunately)
Now that I think about it, I wonder if anyone has done research on Afro-Latino identity and baseball players, especially around the time baseball was segregated. I remember reading that at times, African-American baseball players would try to "pass" as Latino and pretend to speak Spanish on the field in order to be able to play against white teams. And in the same vein the New York Cubans (an old team from the Negro Leagues) had no Cubans on the team. Anyway, if anyone could point me to good sources, I'd be interested.
Color Lines: Fields of Broken Dreams: Latinos and Baseball by Marcos Bretón
Early players hit home run for racial equality by Russell Contreras
Minnie Miñoso (Saturnino Orestes Armas Miñoso Arrieta) was a Black Cuban baseball player who played for the Chicago White Sox (and in Mexico, and in the Negro leagues). My dad knew him from a long time ago and somewhere in my house I think there is an autographed photo of him.
ESPN: Rise of the Latinos: Arriba Baseball brings together a number of different profiles and articles on Latinos in baseball.
Latino Legends in Sports Online Magazine and specifically: Latinos in the Major Leagues: The breakdown 2000
Major League Baseball Players by National Origin
Latino Baseball (Your Complete Guide to Latino Baseball)
Wikipedia: Roberto Clemente
Official Roberto Clemente Site
Other Grenada "sports" posts:
accepting the slurs
new york cubans
what's my name, fool?
Now that I think about it, I wonder if anyone has done research on Afro-Latino identity and baseball players, especially around the time baseball was segregated. I remember reading that at times, African-American baseball players would try to "pass" as Latino and pretend to speak Spanish on the field in order to be able to play against white teams. And in the same vein the New York Cubans (an old team from the Negro Leagues) had no Cubans on the team. Anyway, if anyone could point me to good sources, I'd be interested.
Color Lines: Fields of Broken Dreams: Latinos and Baseball by Marcos Bretón
Early players hit home run for racial equality by Russell Contreras
Minnie Miñoso (Saturnino Orestes Armas Miñoso Arrieta) was a Black Cuban baseball player who played for the Chicago White Sox (and in Mexico, and in the Negro leagues). My dad knew him from a long time ago and somewhere in my house I think there is an autographed photo of him.
ESPN: Rise of the Latinos: Arriba Baseball brings together a number of different profiles and articles on Latinos in baseball.
Latino Legends in Sports Online Magazine and specifically: Latinos in the Major Leagues: The breakdown 2000
Major League Baseball Players by National Origin
Latino Baseball (Your Complete Guide to Latino Baseball)
Wikipedia: Roberto Clemente
Official Roberto Clemente Site
Other Grenada "sports" posts:
accepting the slurs
new york cubans
what's my name, fool?
2 comments:
One thing that I can tell you is that in the Latino community in NYC the WBC was huge and everyone was talking about it. This is a city with a huge Puerto Rican, Dominican and Cuban population. I am also a big baseball fan.
Yeah, I'm not living in a place like that so I was actually kind of embarrassed someone told me after the fact that Cuba made it to the finals.
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