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- catalog abstract "Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez is the greatest pitcher in all of Cuba, and when he is banned from baseball for life for allegedly plotting to defect to the U.S., he risks his life to defect and chase major-league dreams. Fainaru and Sanchez expose the larger-than-life characters who contrast the worlds of Cuba and America, and study players who give up their lives as tools of socialism to test the capitalist free market.".
- catalog alternative "Baseball, Cuba, and the search for the American dream".
- catalog alternative "Baseball, communism, and the search for the American dream".
- catalog contributor b12048058.
- catalog contributor b12048059.
- catalog coverage "Cuba Relations United States.".
- catalog coverage "United States Relations Cuba.".
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-319) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Before the Escape -- Todo Bien -- El Duque -- Senor Pelotero (Mr. Baseball) -- Independence Day -- El Gordo -- Our Man in Havana -- The Free Market -- A Deal with the Devil (Rays) -- Fidel, Inc. -- Crimes Against Baseball -- Banned in Havana -- Feliz Navidad -- The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight -- Free Trade -- The Blue Line -- The Circle Change -- Divine Intervention -- Epilogue: The View from the Pool.".
- catalog description "Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez is the greatest pitcher in all of Cuba, and when he is banned from baseball for life for allegedly plotting to defect to the U.S., he risks his life to defect and chase major-league dreams. Fainaru and Sanchez expose the larger-than-life characters who contrast the worlds of Cuba and America, and study players who give up their lives as tools of socialism to test the capitalist free market.".
- catalog extent "xxv, 338 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Duke of Havana.".
- catalog identifier "0375503455".
- catalog isFormatOf "Duke of Havana.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Villard Books,".
- catalog relation "Duke of Havana.".
- catalog spatial "Cuba Relations United States.".
- catalog spatial "Cuba".
- catalog spatial "Cuba.".
- catalog spatial "United States Relations Cuba.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "796.357/097291 21".
- catalog subject "Baseball Political aspects Cuba.".
- catalog subject "Baseball players Cuba History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Cubans United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "GV863.25.A2 F35 2001".
- catalog subject "Hernández, Orlando, 1969-".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Before the Escape -- Todo Bien -- El Duque -- Senor Pelotero (Mr. Baseball) -- Independence Day -- El Gordo -- Our Man in Havana -- The Free Market -- A Deal with the Devil (Rays) -- Fidel, Inc. -- Crimes Against Baseball -- Banned in Havana -- Feliz Navidad -- The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight -- Free Trade -- The Blue Line -- The Circle Change -- Divine Intervention -- Epilogue: The View from the Pool.".
- catalog title "Baseball, Cuba, and the search for the American dream".
- catalog title "Baseball, communism, and the search for the American dream".
- catalog title "The Duke of Havana : baseball, communism, and the search for the American dream / Steve Fainaru and Ray Sanchez.".
- catalog type "Hernandez, Orlando. swd".
- catalog type "text".