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 these days would be unrecognizable without the large choice 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 and within the Caribbean nations within the 1940s. This narrative history of Latin American baseball leagues throughout 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, Nicaragua, Panama, Venezuela, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. The success of these leagues, and their continuously acrimonious competition with U.S. Organized Baseball, in the end ushered in a new era of contract concessions from owners and general labor advancements for players that perpetually changed the sport.

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