
Cuban Star
In Cuban Star, an interpretive account of Alejandro "Alex" Pompez''s life in context, Adrian Burgos, Jr. follows Pompez''s--and baseball''s--path through the twentieth century''s changing social and racial landscape.
When the selection committee voted Alex Pompez into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006, some cried foul. A Negro-league owner during baseball''s glory days, Pompez was known as an early...
In Cuban Star, an interpretive account of Alejandro "Alex" Pompez''s life in context, Adrian Burgos, Jr. follows Pompez''s--and baseball''s--path through the twentieth century''s changing social and racial landscape.
When the selection committee voted Alex Pompez into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006, some cried foul. A Negro-league owner during baseball''s glory days, Pompez was known as an early...