The pitcher and the dictator : Satchel Paige's unlikely season in the Dominican Republic / Averell "Ace" Smith.

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"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 countr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Smith, Averell (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]
Subjects:	Paige, Satchel, > 1906-1982. Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leónidas, > 1891-1961. Dragones de Ciudad Trujillo (Baseball team) > History. Dragones de Ciudad Trujillo (Baseball team) Baseball > Dominican Republic > History. Dominican Republic > History > 1930-1961. Pitchers (Baseball) > United States > Biography. African American baseball players > Biography. SPORTS & RECREATION > Baseball > History. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies. HISTORY > Latin America > Central America. African American baseball players. Baseball. Pitchers (Baseball) Dominican Republic. United States. 1930-1961 History.
Genre:	Biography. History.
Physical Description:	xii, 211 pages ; 24 cm
Format:	Book

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