The Rise of the Latin American Baseball Leagues, 1947-1961: Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico and Venezuela

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Major League Baseball lately would be unrecognizable without the large selection of Latin American players and managers filling its ranks. Their strong influence at the sport can trace its beginnings to professional leagues established south of the border over six decades ago. This narrative history of Latin American baseball leagues all through the 1940s and 1950s provides an in-depth, year-by-year chronicle of seasonal leagues within the seven number one baseball-playing areas within the region: Mexico, the Caribbean, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Panama. The success of these leagues, and their ceaselessly acrimonious competition with U. S. Organized Baseball, sooner or later ushered in a new era of contract concessions from owners and general labor advancements for players that endlessly changed the sport.

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