Isabel "Lefty" Alvarez : The Improbable Life of a Cuban American Baseball Star /
"Kat D. Williams traces Isabel "Lefty" Alvarez's life from her childhood in Cuba to her reinvention of herself as a professional American baseball player, illuminating the importance of sport as a source of stability in a life defined by challenges"--
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Lincon :
University of Nebraska Press,
2020.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. El Cerro
- 2. Refashioning Lefty
- 3. The Passion of the Island
- 4. Coming to America
- 5. Life after the League
- 6. A League of Her Own
- Epilogue
- Appendix I
- Appendix II
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index