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Pitching Around Fidel: A Journey into the Heart of Cuban Sports

On a July evening in 2007, during a Double-A Arkansas Travelers game, a foul ball rocketed off Tino Sanchez's bat and struck first-base coach Mike Coolbaugh. The thirty-five-year-old father of two—with another on the way—was killed almost instantly. Heart of the Game tells the story of this tragic event and its aftermath, and of the minor-league players and coaches who dedicate themselves to the sport all over America, far from the celebrities, scandals, and multimillion-dollar contracts of Major League Baseball. It brings us into a world of small-town sports and small-town lives, and the pure joy of a game played away from the noise of mindless internet blather and media hype. Includes photographs.

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Publisher
Harper Collins
Year
2009
ISBN-13
9780061915918
Genre
Nonfiction
Topics
Cuban sports and societyBaseball culturePolitics of sports under Castro

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