The Pitcher and the Dictator: Satchel Paige's Unlikely Season in the Dominican Republic

Smith, Averell Ace

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Lincoln. 2018. April 2018. University of Nebraska Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9781496205490. 6 x 9. 14 photographs, 6 illustrations, 2 tables, 1 appendix, index. 232 pages. hardcover. keywords: Latin America Dominnican Republic Caribbean Sports Baseball African American. DESCRIPTION - Soon after Satchel Paige arrived at spring training in 1937 to pitch for the Pittsburgh Crawfords, he and five of his teammates, including Josh Gibson and Cool Papa Bell, were lured to the Dominican Republic with the promise of easy money to play a short baseball tournament in support of the country's dictator, Rafael Trujillo. As it turned out, the money wasn't so easy. After Paige and his friends arrived on the island, they found themselves under the thumb of Trujillo, known by Dominicans for murdering those who disappointed him. In the initial games, the Ciudad Trujillo all-star team floundered. Living outside the shadow of segregation, Satchel and his recruits spent their nights carousing and their days dropping close games to their rivals, who were also stocked with great players. Desperate to restore dis cipline, Trujillo tapped the leader of his death squads to become part of the team management. The American players believed they might be lined up and shot if they lost the tournament. When Paige's team ultimately rallied to win, it barely registered with Trujillo, who a few months later ordered the killings of fifteen thousand Haitians at the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Paige and his teammates returned to the states to face banishment from the Negro Leagues, but ironically they barnstormed across America wearing their Trujillo All-Stars uniforms. The Pitcher and the Dictator is an extraordinary story of race, politics, and some of the greatest baseball players ever assembled, playing high-stakes baseball in support of one of the Caribbean's cruelest dictators. I was nineteen years old when I played with Satchel Paige in 1968. He knew my name but called me Daffy - and I was happy to let him. By then Satchel had lived one of the most extraordinary lives of our times, and Ace Smith captures his spirit with his compelling true story of the one adventure that could have ended it all, a deal to pitch in the Dominican Republic, under military watch, when losing was not an option. The Pitcher and the Dictator paints a rich portrait of one of the greatest barnstorming baseball teams. - Dusty Baker, legendary Major League Baseball player and manager. The Pitcher and the Dictator is a gripping account of Satchel Paige's travels to an island run by a dictator - during which he faces the harsh obstacles of racism, power, and politics in the 1930s. - Lance Williams, award-winning journalist and coauthor of Game of Shadows. inventory #43454.…

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The Pitcher and the Dictator: Satchel Paige's Unlikely Season in the Dominican Republic
Auteur
Smith, Averell Ace
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University of Nebraska Press
Année de publication
2018
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Very Good in Dustjacket
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Very Good
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hardcover
Langue
anglais
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1496205499
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9781496205490
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First Edition.

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