Las estrellas Orientales, Mark Kurlansky
Las estrellas Orientales, Mark Kurlansky
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Las estrellas Orientales
Como el beisbol cambio el pueblo dominicano de San Pedro deMacoris

Author: Mark Kurlansky

Narrator: David Crommett

Unabridged: 9 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/18/2011

Synopsis

Al final de la temporada de 2010, mas de ochenta y seis jovenes y hombres de la empobrocida ciudad de San Pedro de Macoris jugaban en las Grandes Ligas-lo que significa que uno de cada seis dominicanos de las Grandes Ligas vinieron de los mismos equipos locales de los ingenios azucareros, y acudieron en masa a los Estados Unidos en busca de oportunidades, de riqueza, y de una vida mejor. Pero este viaje es tambien una cronica del racismo en el beisbol, de la necesidad de cambiar las costumbres sociales del deporte en la Republica Dominicana y en los Estados Unidos, y de las historias personales de los hombres que han buscado escapar de la pobreza jugando beisbol. En Las estrellas orientales, Mark Kurlansky revela el amor de dos paises por un deporte, y descubre unos significados mas profundos sobre lugar e identidad, tenacidad y supervivencia, colonialismo y capitalismo, pero especialmente sobre el beisbol.

About Mark Kurlansky

Mark Kurlansky is the New York Times bestselling and James A. Beard Award–winning author of 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; The White Man in the Tree (a collection of short stories); and several other books. Boogaloo on Second Avenue is his first novel. He lives in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by N-rose

I can't believe just how bad this was. It was an aimless look at baseball in the Dominican Republic town of San Pedro. I think. That's what Kurlansky tells me this is about. There is some information on how the town came to be - and the role of the sugar markets. But the books drifts from topic to to......more

Goodreads review by Matt

This book badly needed to be written. May it please be put on library shelves, replacing dull histories of the Yankees, Red Sox, and Brooklyn Dodgers. Mark Kurlansky, meanwhile, ain't Walt Whitman, and no disrespect to Whitman, but that's a good thing. Baseball lovers will be disproportionately attr......more

Goodreads review by Barney

ark Kurlansky wrote one of my favorite books (Salt) and one book I used for summer reading for my European History class (Cod). Kurlansky specializes in bringing together the most varied strings of information to produce an overall history of a single item. I was very excited for this book, as: 1. I......more

Goodreads review by Joel

San Pedro de Macoris is a city in the Dominican Republic (population nearly 200,000 as of 2010) which is famous for producing numerous major league baseball players over the past 50 years, including stars such as Rico Carty, Pedro Guerrero, Joaquin Andujar, Julio Franco, Sammy Sosa, Alfonso Soriano,......more

Goodreads review by Nancy

Mmmm. Not as enthralling as Kurlansky's best works, nor as thorough. I don't think that the book was as much about HOW baseball changed San Pedro as it was about WHY San Pedro produces so many Major League players, so if you're expecting more of a "baseball and all its money came to town, here's wha......more

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