Beisbol on the Air

Essays on Major League Spanish-Language Broadcasters

Buch | Softcover

217 Seiten

2023
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-8767-4 (ISBN)

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Filling a gap in the literature of baseball, this collection of new essays examines the history of the game in Spanish, from the earliest ‘locutores’ who called the plays for Latin American audiences to the League’s expansion into cities with large Latino populations that made talented sportscasters for the fanaticos a business necessity.

Both the U.S. population and Major League Baseball rosters have seen dramatic demographic changes over the past 50 years. The nation and the sport are becoming multilingual, with Spanish the unofficial second language. Today, 21 of 30 MLB teams broadcast at least some games in Spanish.

Filling a gap in the literature of baseball, this collection of new essays examines the history of the game in Spanish, from the earliest locutores who called the plays for Latin American audiences to the League's expansion into cities with large Latino populations--Los Angeles, Houston and Miami to name a few--that made talented sportscasters for the fanaticos a business necessity.

Jorge Iber is an associate dean and a professor of history at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. He is the author of numerous works on the role of Latinos and Latinas in U.S. sports. Anthony Salazar is the chair of the Latino Baseball Research Committee of SABR and has worked on various projects dealing with this topic.

Table of Contents

Foreword

deleteCurt Smith

Introduction

deleteJorge Iber and Anthony R. Salazar

1. Legends

Buck Canel

deleteLuis Rodríguez-Mayoral

René Cárdenas

deleteFrancisco Romero and Jorge Iber

Jaime Jarrín

deleteRichard A. Santillán and Frank C. Moreno

Felo Ramírez

deleteLou Hernández

2. Veterans

Eduardo Ortega

deleteJorge Iber

Orlando Sánchez-Diago

deleteJorge Iber

Amaury Pi-González

deleteJorge Iber

Uri Berenguer

deleteBill Nowlin

Luis Rodríguez-Mayoral

deleteLou Hernández

Héctor Molina

deleteJuan Jose Rodríguez

Tony Oliva

deleteCésar Brioso

Jorge Jarrín

deleteScott Melesky

Pepe Yñiguez

deleteScott Melesky

3. Newer Voices

Francisco Romero

deleteJorge Iber

Junior Pepén

deleteBill Nowlin

Jessica Mendoza

deleteRoberto Avant-Mier and Patrick J. McConnell

Conclusion

deleteJorge Iber

About the Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.04.2023
Zusatzinfo	15 photos, notes, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	290 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4766-8767-6 / 1476687676
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-8767-4 / 9781476687674
Zustand	Neuware