The Tropic of Baseball

Baseball in the Dominican Republic

• Author(s): Rob Ruck,
• Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
• Pages: 217
• ISBN_13: 9780803289789
  ISBN_10: 0803289782
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Sports & Recreation / Baseball / History ,

Description:... In a new afterword Rob Ruck looks at the current state of baseball in the country that has produced Sammy Sosa and many other major league stars. Ruck teaches history at the University of Pittsburgh and is the author of Sandlot Seasons: Sport in Black Pittsburgh and other books. He was project director for the film Kings on the Hill, an Emmy-winning documentary on Negro League baseball.