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Cuban Star: How One Negro-League Owner Changed the Face of Baseball
- Item Number
- 1123
- Estimated Value
- 10 USD
- Sold
- 3 USD to HappyJana
- Number of Bids
- 1 - Bid History
Item Description
The winner will receive Cuban Star: How One Negro-League Owner Changed the Face of Baseball.
prominence during Latino baseball’s earliest glory days. As a passionate and
steadfast advocate for Latino players, he helped bring baseball into the modern
age. But like many in the era of segregated baseball, Pompez also found that the
game alone could never make all ends meet, and he delved headlong into the
seedier side of the sport—gambling—to help finance his beloved team, the New
York Cubans. He built one of the most infamous numbers rackets in Harlem,
rubbing shoulders with titans of the underworld such as Dutch Schultz and
eventually arousing the ire of the famed prosecutor Thomas Dewey. He also
brought the Cubans, with their incredible lineup of international players, to a
Negro League World Series Championship in 1947.
as long as possible in the face of integration even as he helped his players
make the transition to the majors. In his later days as a scout, he championed
some of the brightest future Latino stars and became one of Latin America’s most
vocal advocates for the game.
and Ortiz is a testament to the influence of Pompez and his contemporaries.
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