ADRIAN BURGOS, JR.
Friday, November 16 at 7:30 p.m.

Co-presented with the LATINO BASEBALL COMMITTEE, SOCIETY FOR BASEBALL RESEARCH. With baseball season having just concluded here on the mainland U.S., attention turns to Hot Stove League offseason matters, and for many, to winter baseball as played in Latin America. The relation of Latino ballplayers, communities, and countries to baseball and other social, cultural factors at work here, gets the major treatment in University of Illinois historian Adrian Burgos, Jr.'s landmark book, Playing America's Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line (University of California). "Adrian Burgos is one of the best young historians currently working the baseball beat. This is essential reading, not just for baseball aficionados, but for anyone interested in the history of American race and ethnic relations." - Jules Tygiel.

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