Photographer Villegas and sportswriter Wendel dramatically reveal the energy, talent, and hard-driving ambition of baseball players from Venezuela to the Domini

Learn about a man who many people said was born to play baseball because of his extraordinary throwing, fielding, and hitting.

Profiles the Latino baseball legends from Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic, and provides each player's statistics, anecdotes, playing style, and co

Lively and anecdotal, Viva Baseball! chronicles the struggles of Latin American professional baseball players in the United States from the late 1800s to the pr

Although largely ignored by historians of both baseball in general and the Negro leagues in particular, Latinos have been a significant presence in organized ba