By David J. Leonard
Latinos are the quickest transforming into inhabitants in the US this present day. This two-volume encyclopedia strains the background of Latinos within the usa from colonial occasions to the current, concentrating on their impression at the country in its ancient improvement and present tradition. "Latino background and tradition" covers the myriad ethnic teams that make up the Latino inhabitants. It explores matters comparable to exertions, felony and unlawful immigration, conventional and immigrant tradition, health and wellbeing, schooling, political activism, artwork, literature, and kin, in addition to historic occasions and advancements. A-Z entries disguise eras, members, businesses and associations, severe occasions in U.S. background and the effect of the Latino inhabitants, groups and ethnic teams, and key towns and areas. each one access comprises pass references and bibliographic citations, and a accomplished index and illustrations increase the textual content.
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Perhaps the best player never to don an MLB uniform in that era was Martín Dihigo, a Cuban who starred in the Negro Leagues as both a pitcher and an infielder in the 1920s and 1930s. Dihigo became the first Latino inducted in the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1977; he also is enshrined in the Cuban, Mexican, and Venezuelan halls. The first Latino to serve as a major league manager was Miguel Angel (“Mike”) Gonzalez, who led the St. Louis Cardinals for a brief period in 1938. Cuban-born catcher Miguel Angel “Mike” González played with five different teams.
Cuba was the source of the first Latin baseball players in the American professional game. Esteban Enrique (Steve) Bellán, a light-skinned Cuban, played for the Troy (New York) Haymakers and New York Mutuals of the National Association from 1871 to 1873. The first Latino in the modern major leagues was Louis R. Castro, a Colombian who appeared briefly with the Philadelphia Athletics of the American League in 1902. The most outstanding Latino major leaguer of the pre-integration era was Cuban pitcher Adolfo (the “Pride of Havana”) Luque, who compiled 194 wins in a twenty-year career and, in 1919, became the first Latino to appear in a World Series.
As the nation’s economy worsened under the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, Arena joined the revolution of Fidel Castro at age fifteen and fought against the Batista government for three years. With Castro’s rise to power, Arenas was granted a scholarship to study agricultural accountancy. He later studied philosophy and literature at the Universidad de La Habana but never completed his degree. In 1963, Arenas was offered a job at the Biblioteca Nacional José Martí. This position marked the beginning of Arenas’s career as a writer, and in 1965, his first novel, Celestino antes del alba (Celestino Before Dawn), won a First Mention Award at the Cirilo Villaverde National Competition.