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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.35708968
EAN num: 9780253341914
ISBN number: 0253341914
Label: Indiana University Press
Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 280
Printing Date: 2003-01
Publishing house: Indiana University Press
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While some Latin American superstars have overcome discrimination to strike gold in baseball's big leagues, thousands more Latin American players never make it to 'The Show.' 'Stealing Lives' focuses on the plight of one Venezuelan teenager and documents abuses that take place against Latin children and young men as baseball becomes a global business. The authors reveal that in their efforts to secure cheap labor, Major League teams often violate the basic human rights of children. As a young boy growing up in Venezuela, Alexis Quiroz dreamed of playing in the Major Leagues. Alexi's dreams were like those of thousands of other boys in the Dominican Republic and Venezuela, and Major League teams encouraged such dreams by recruiting Latin children as young as 10 and 11 years old.Determined to become a big league player, Alexis finished high school early and dedicated himself to landing a contract with a Major League team. Alexis signed with the Chicago Cubs in 1995 at age 17 and then began a harrowing ordeal of exploitation, mistreatment, and disrespect at the hands of the Chicago Cubs, including playing for the Cubs' Dominican Summer League team in appalling living conditions. Alexis' baseball career came to an abrupt end by an injury for which the Cubs provided no adequate medical treatment.The story continues, however, with Alexis' pursuit of justice in the United States to ensure that other Venezuelan and Dominican boys do not encounter similar experiences. What happened to Alexis is not an isolated case - Major League teams routinely deny Latin children and young men the basic protections that their U.S. counterparts take for granted. This exploitation violates international legal standards on labor standards and the human rights of children. 'Stealing Lives' concludes by analyzing various reforms to redress the inequities big league baseball creates in its globalization.
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I found Stealing Lives a great book and I will recomend it to everyone who wants to know the dark side of baseball in its relationship with Latinoamerica. A reviewer claimed that the office established by the Commissioner's Office in the Domincian Republic is not discussed in the book when actually is deeply analysed in several chapters. ...
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As a reader I am being asked to believe that Major League Baseball is institutionally exploiting children in developing nations. Quite a claim! What kind of evidence and what kind of methods do these authors present to make their case? The best I can make of it is that they have systematically searched for cases that would confirm their conclusions. This is bad enough in itself, but their conclusions seem to have come at the beginning of their work, rather than at the end.
The cases they rely upon are, in my investigation of similar events, swamped by others that indicate clubs ranging along a continuum from poor to good. Moreover, the Commissioner's Office has established an office in the Domincian Republic that is regulating all of the organizations down there (working closely with the Dominican Commissioner of Baseball). Where is this discussed? What kind of method on their part resulted in the selection of the Chicago Cubs, rather than the Houston Astros? Or the particular Venezuelan they chose to highlight? The absence of much in the way of very first hand accounts of people involved with organizations or the Commissioner's Office makes me wonder how this whole book was generated.
The worst part of this work is that it represents a rank form of ethnocentrism, a bias in which we see other cultural behavior through the lens of our own culture. We usually associate this with conservative thinking. Clearly, that's not the case. Ethnocentrism, in this case, is aided by dreadful research resulting in interpretations of situations in other cultures that are misleading, and often simply wrong.
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A really great book about a side of baseball that is not often analyse. It is a must read for every baseball fan that wants to know exactly how is the recruitment process of baseball players in Latin America!
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