The Veracruz Blues

The Veracruz Blues
Author: Mark Winegardner
Publisher: Penguin Group
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1997-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780140260281


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Based on actual events during the turbulent, postwar baseball days of 1946, this captivating, darkly comic novel tells of a group of American players who, frustrated by their treatment at the hands of the major league owners, begin defecting to a Mexican baseball league.


The Veracruz Blues
Language: en
Pages: 276
Authors: Mark Winegardner
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-02 - Publisher: Penguin Group

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Based on actual events during the turbulent, postwar baseball days of 1946, this captivating, darkly comic novel tells of a group of American players who, frust
The Veracruz Blues
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Mark Winegardner
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: Viking Adult

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"When big-league ballplayers return from the war, unhappy with the contracts the club owners offer them, the wealthy Pasquel brothers pay unheard-of salaries to
Crooked River Burning
Language: en
Pages: 591
Authors: Mark Winegardner
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-11-23 - Publisher: HarperCollins

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In 1948 Cleveland was America's sixth largest city; by 1969 it was the twelfth. For Easterners, Cleveland is where the Midwest begins; for Westerners, it is whe
That's True of Everybody
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Mark Winegardner
Categories: Middle West
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Mariner Books

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The proprietor of a bowling alley whose artist daughter paints only phalluses. A ninth-grade girl who marries in haste only to be faced with her husband's impot
Invisible Ball of Dreams
Language: en
Pages: 203
Authors: Emily Ruth Rutter
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-04-30 - Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

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Winner of the 2018 John Coates Next Generation Award from the Negro Leagues Research Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research Although many Ameri