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on Estrellas’ losing streak
family and childhood
hitting advice
major-league career
on San Pedro ballplayers
Canó, Joselito
Canó, Robinson
Cardinals, St. Louis
Carrasco, Héctor
Carrasquel, Alex
Cartwright, Alexander
Carty, Rico
Cashman, Brian
Casimiro, Carlos
Castillo, Bonny
Castillo, Juan
Castillo, Luis
Cedeño, Sergio
CEMEX
César Iglesias factory
Céspedes, Carlos Manuel de
Chandler, Happy
Chapman, Ben
charitable foundations
Chicago Cubs
Chicago White Sox
Cincinnati Reds
Circuito de los Ingenios
Claxton, Jimmy
Clemens, Roger
Clemente, Roberto
Cleveland Indians
Abreu, Abner
Doby, Larry
González, Pedro
Griffin, Alfredo
Miñoso, Minnie
Otero, Reggie
Veeck, Bill
Cobb, Ty
Colome, Alexander
Colome, Jesús
Colón, Bartolo
color line
“Concierto de Esperanza para la Mano Izquierda” (Mir)
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
Consuelo team
Carty, Rico
equipment
Franco, Julio
gifted players from
Griffin, Alfredo
Consuelo village
cane harvest
Carty family in
houses
production of baseball players
sugar mill
in twenty-first century
Contón, Alfredo “Chico,”
Córdova, Cuqui
CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)
Corporán, Alcadio, and family
Corporán, Manuel
cricket
Cristóbal Colón mill
Cruz, Victor
Cuba
ballplayers from
baseball in
sugar industry
U.S. trade embargo against
Cubs, Chicago
Cummings, Candy
Cunningham, Bill
curses
curveballs
Cy Young Award
dances
Dark, Al
DeFreitas, Arturo
“Del Trapiche” (Deligne)
Deligne, Gastón Fernando
Detroit Tigers
Diamondbacks, Arizona
Diederich, Bernard
Dihigo, Martín
DiMaggio, Joe
Doby, Larry
Dodgers, Brooklyn
Dodgers, Los Angeles
Avila, Rafael
Beltré, Adrián
Canó, Charlie
Galvez, Balvino
Griffin, Alfredo
Guerrero, Pedro
Roseboro, Johnny
Dominican baseball players
in Dominican military
first major leaguers
lack of education
in major and minor leagues
stereotypes
Dominican League
budget inequality
draft system
foreign players
professional status
salaries
teams in
Dominican Republic
ambiguous identity
anti-Haitianism
Balaguer and Bosch presidencies
chronology
curses
European invasions and annexations of
immigration to United States from
major-league scouts in
poetic description of
racial tensions
regionalism
Santo Domingo
steroid availability
sugar industry
Tainos
Trujillo dictatorship
upper class
U.S. invasion and occupation of
women
See also San Pedro de Macorís
Dominican Summer League
Dominican Winter Baseball League
Doubleday, Abner
Dragones de Ciudad Trujillo
Dressen, Charles
Drysdale, Don
Duncan, Mariano
Eastern Stars. See Estrellas Orientales
Echavaría, Tony
on crime
on investment by major-league players
on San Pedro economy
Escogido Lions
Espaillat, Ulises Francisco
Estadio Tetelo Vargas
Esteban Bastardo, Raquel
Estrellas Orientales
fans
founding of
losing streak
professional status
stadium
top players in
in 2008 playoff
Eusebio, Tony
Expos, Montreal
Fernández, Leonel
Fernández, Ramón “Sanbobi,”
Fernández, Tony
Fernández de Oviedo, Gonzalo
Fiallo, Federico
five-tool players
Flood, Curt
Florida Marlins
foods
chicken
congrejos al ajillo
crabs in coconut
Dominican diet
English steamed fish
fungi
ham and eggs
mofongo
pescado y domplin
restaurant orders
Foster, Rube
Franco, Felicia
Franco, Julio
in America
childhood home
on Consuelo team
determination
major-league career
mother’s house
in retirement years
Franco, Vicente
Frías, Pepe
Furcal, Rafael
Galíndez, Jesús de
Galvez, Balvino
García, Antonio “El Chico,”
García, Julio
García, Silvio
Garvey, Marcus
Gehrig, Lou
Giants, New York
Alou, Felipe
Latham, Arlie
Martínez, Horacio
Pompez, Alejandro
Thompson, Hank
Virgil, Ozzie
Giants, San Francisco
Gibson, Bob
Gibson, Josh
Gil, Jerry
Glanville, Doug
Goldberg, Arthur
Gómez, Petronila Angélica
González, Juan
González, Pedro
as Atlanta Braves scout
background
as Consuelo manager
major-league career
racism endured by
temper
González Echevarría, Roberto
Gooden, Dwight
Grant, Ulysses