The Quality of Home Runs: The Passion, Politics, and Language of Cuban Baseball Book

Contents

Preface: Entering the Field....................vii
Acknowledgments....................xv
Introduction. The Theoretical "Stretching" of Sport and the State....................1
1 Baseball and the Language of Contention....................17
2 Circling the Base Paths: Baseball, Migration, and the Cuban Nation....................36
3 The Spectacle of and for Cuba....................63
4 The State in Play: The Politics of Cuba's National Sport....................89
5 Fans, Rivalries, and the Play of Cuba....................111
6 Talking a Good Game....................136
7 The Qualities of Cubanidad: Calidad and Lucha in Baseball....................159
Conclusion: Touching 'Em All: Recalling and Recounting Home Runs....................183
Notes....................203
Works Cited....................213
Index....................231