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Baseball on the border a tale of two Laredos /

From 1985 to 1994 there existed a significant but unheralded experiment in professional baseball. For ten seasons, the Tecolotes de los Dos Laredos (The Owls of the Two Laredos) were the only team in professional sports to represent two nations. Playing in the storied Mexican League (an AAA affiliat...

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Main Author: Klein, Alan, 1946-
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [1997]
Physical Description: xiv, 291 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 24 cm.
Subjects:
Baseball -- Social aspects -- Texas -- Laredo -- Case studies.
Baseball -- Social aspects -- Mexico -- Nuevo Laredo -- Case studies.
Nationalism and sports -- Texas -- Laredo -- Case studies.
Nationalism and sports -- Mexico -- Nuevo Laredo -- Case studies.
Cities and towns -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions -- Case studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part one: Origins
  • 1. A brief history of the two Laredos
  • 2. Early baseball on the border
  • 3. Nationalizing the game
  • Part two: Becoming Tecos
  • 4. The players and the team
  • 5. Culture and masculinity on the Tecos
  • Photographs
  • Part three: The river joins and the river divides
  • 6. 1993: The best of times
  • 7. 1994: The worst of times
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix A: Bibliographic essay: Border and nationalisms
  • Appendix B Methods and perspective
  • Notes
  • Index.

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