The Quality of Home Runs: The Passion, Politics, and Language of Cuban Baseball
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In parks and cafes, homes and stadium stands, Cubans talk baseball. Thomas F. Carter contends that when they are analyzing and debating plays, games, teams, and athletes, Cubans are exchanging ideas not just about baseball but also about Cuba and cubanidad, or what it means to be Cuban. The Quality of Home Runs is Carter's lively ethnographic exploration of the interconnections between baseball and Cuban identity. Suggesting that baseball...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0822342766
ISBN13:9780822342762
Release Date:November 2008
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 8.8"
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