Cuba Baseball
US Speaker: Baseball and Latin America - Panama
Milton Jamail has published articles on Latin American baseball in Baseball America, USA Today Baseball Weekly, Hispanic, Vista, The Houston Chronicle, The Washington Post and Texas Monthly. He has also written more than forty entries on international baseball for the updated Encyclopaedia Britannica. He is the author of Full Count: Inside Cuban Baseball, published by Southern Illinois University Press in 2000. He is currently working on a book that explores the scouting of Venezuela by the Houston Astros. ... [Read More]
USIA - Portrait of the USA, Ch. 11
Starting in the 1950s, baseball expanded its geographicalrange. Western cities got teams, either by luring them to movefrom eastern cities or by forming so-called expansion teams withplayers made available by established teams. Until the 1970s,because of strict contracts, the owners of baseball teams alsovirtually owned the players; since then, the rules have changedso that players are free, within certain limits, to sell theirservices to any team. The results have been bidding wars andstars who are paid millions of dollars a year. Disputes betweenthe players' union and the owners have at times halted baseballfor months at a time. If baseball is both a sport and a business,late in the 20th century many disgruntled fans view the businessside as the dominant one. ... [Read More]
U.S. Department of State - Washington Hyper File
(Shirin Ebadi/Nobel Peace Prize, United Nations, leak allegations, Cuba, China, APEC, Guantanamo, Iraq, energy, Canada, California, North Korea, baseball) (4650) ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Transcript: White House Daily Briefing, October 10
Q: Just a light question, but this is a pretty good baseball post-season, the President is a big fan. I know we've heard little bits and pieces about him tracking it. Can you just give us a picture of how he's following it and what he thinks of the Cubs' chance? ... -- Baseball ... (Shirin Ebadi/Nobel Peace Prize, United Nations, leak allegations, Cuba, China, APEC, Guantanamo, Iraq, energy, Canada, California, North Korea, baseball) (4650) ... [Read More]
David Goldiner, "Games for the Whole World" , U.S. Society and Values, December 2003
Jaromir Jagr, the high-scoring wing for the Washington Capitals hockey team, has led a veritable invasion of talented players from East Europe and the former Soviet Union. In baseball, slugger Sammy Sosa is just one of dozens of stars from the Dominican Republic to make their mark on Major League Baseball. Japanese stars like Ichiro Suzuki and Koreans like Chan Ho Park have boosted the sport's popularity in the Pacific Rim. ... The international profile of American football got a boost from the launch of the NFL Europe league, which provides an opportunity for some European neophytes to play against somewhat lesser American professional talents. Many of the foreigners – 90 made preseason rosters in the NFL this season – are sons of immigrants from places like Mexico or West Africa. From Colonial TimesTeam sports were an early manifestation of life in colonial North America. Predecessor games to modern-day baseball and soccer were popular among the colonists in the early 18th century, decades before America's Declar ... [Read More]
USIS Washington File: TRANSCRIPT: STATE DEPARTMENT NOON BRIEFING, MARCH 5, 1999
MCCLENNY: No, that wouldn't fall under that area. Discussions are ongoing between Major League Baseball and the owners of the Baltimore Orioles on the modalities of two possible exhibition games between the Orioles and the Cuban national team. I can't speculate on the outcome of those talks at this point in time. I can say that reports that an agreement has already been reached are premature. ... It is the policy of the U.S. Government to encourage these kinds of exchanges, and we hope the Orioles will succeed in their discussions, and the people of Cuba will have an opportunity to watch U.S. baseball in action. I encourage you to watch that, too - watch that story. ... [Read More]
USIS Washington File: TRANSCRIPT: STATE DEPARTMENT NOON BRIEFING, APRIL 3, 1998
Q: Well, it is a different Cuba question. But Joe Cubas, the baseball agent, says he has an agreement from four countries in the region to take the baseball players who are in the Bahamas now. Do you have a comment on that? ... 1-2 Status of Migrant Cuban Baseball Personnel in Bahamas ... [Read More]
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