The Eastern Stars - Mark Kurlansky [0]
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
PART ONE - SUGAR
CHAPTER ONE - Like the Trace of a Kiss
CHAPTER TWO - The First Question
CHAPTER THREE - The Question of First
CHAPTER FOUR - Who’s on First
CHAPTER FIVE - The First Opening
CHAPTER SIX - San Pedro Rising
CHAPTER SEVEN - Draft Dodging
PART TWO - DOLLARS
CHAPTER EIGHT - The Fourth Incarnation of San Pedro
CHAPTER NINE - The City of Baseball
CHAPTER TEN - Three Three-Brother Families
CHAPTER ELEVEN - The Curse of the Eastern Stars
CHAPTER TWELVE - San Pedro’s Black Eye
CHAPTER THIRTEEN - Fickle Judgment from the Peanut Gallery
APPENDIX ONE - The First Seventy-nine: Major League Baseball Players from San ...
APPENDIX TWO - A Dominican Chronology
Acknowledgements
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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The Big Oyster: History on the Half-Shell
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1968: The Year That Rocked the World
Salt: A World History
The Basque History of the World
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
A Chosen Few: The Resurrection of European Jewry
A Continent of Islands: Searching for the Caribbean Destiny
ANTHOLOGY
Choice Cuts:
A Savory Selection of Food Writing
from Around the World and Throughout History
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Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue: A Novel of Pastry, Guilt, and Music
The White Man in the Tree and Other Stories
FOR CHILDREN
The Cod’s Tale
The Girl Who Swam to Euskadi
The Story of Salt
TRANSLATION
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kurlansky, Mark.
The Eastern stars : how baseball changed the Dominican town of San Pedro de Macorís / Mark Kurlansky.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
eISBN : 978-1-101-18686-2
1. Baseball—Dominican Republic—San Pedro de Macorís—History.
2. Baseball players—Dominican Republic—San Pedro de Macorís—History. I. Title.
GV863.29.D65K
796.35707293’82—dc22
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