Mark Kurlansky

The Eastern Stars: How Baseball Changed the Dominican Town of San Pedro de Macoris

Riverhead, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. As new in dust jacket. First edition/printing. Hardcover. 272 pp. with bibliography, index. A bnook about poverty and wealth, tenacity and survival, colonialism and capitalism, the Dominican people, a small Caribbean town---and baseball. By 2008, seventy-nine boys and men for San Pedro de Macoris had gone on to play in the Major Leagues; some of their names became instantly recognizable, such as Rico Carty, Sammy Sosa, Alfonso Soriano. As New / as new. Item #E20270
ISBN: 9781594487507

Price: $10.95