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Baseball on the border : a tale of two Laredos /

From 1985 to 1994 there existed a significant but unheralded experiment in professional baseball. For ten seasons, the Tecolotes de los Dos Laredos (The Owls of the Two Laredos) were the only team in professional sports to represent two nations. Playing in the storied Mexican League (an AAA affiliat...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Klein, Alan, 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©1997.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Part One: Origins. One: A Brief History of the Two Laredos ; Two: Early Baseball on the Border ; Three: Nationalizing the Game -- Part Two: Becoming Tecos. Four: The Players and the Team ; Five: Culture and Masculinity on the Tecos -- Part Three: The River Joins and the River Divides. Six: 1993: The Best of Times ; Seven: 1994: The Worst of Times. 
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