Pitching Democracy

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Pitching Democracy is written by April Yoder and published by University of Texas Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1477326766 (ISBN 10) and 9781477326763 (ISBN 13).

"This book focuses on the history of baseball in the Dominican Republic, especially the sport's political ramifications. Yoder argues that Dominicans kept their sense of democratic idealism in part because they were intertwined with the aspirations of baseball as it developed into a transnational industry. Baseball became economically central to the Dominican Republic at the same time as the country was turning toward concerns of development, resulting in an economic and political "Third Way" that drew from both the Cuban and US models"--