TY - BOOK AU - Klein,Alan M. TI - Baseball on the Border: A Tale of Two Laredos SN - 9781400884520 U1 - 796.357/09764/462 21 PY - 2016///] CY - Princeton, NJ PB - Princeton University Press KW - Baseball KW - Social aspects KW - Mexico KW - Nuevo Laredo KW - Case studies KW - Texas KW - Laredo KW - Nationalism and sports KW - SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / General KW - bisacsh KW - Aldo Tatangelo KW - Andre Gunder Frank KW - Anglo KW - Anti-Americanism KW - Anti-Mexican sentiment KW - Apache KW - Barnstorming KW - Baseball cap KW - Batting order (cricket) KW - Berlin Wall KW - Beyond a Boundary KW - Border zone KW - Brooklyn Dodgers (NFL) KW - Bull Durham KW - Cinco de Mayo KW - Colonialism KW - Color guard (flag spinning) KW - Cultural hegemony KW - Cultural imperialism KW - Deion Sanders KW - Diego Rivera KW - Dominican Republic KW - Edward Said KW - Ernest Gellner KW - Ethnography KW - Feudalism KW - Fight song KW - Fraternization KW - General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade KW - George Plimpton KW - Gregorio Cortez KW - Imperialism KW - Latin America KW - Level playing field KW - Lucio Blanco KW - Machismo KW - Masculinity KW - Match Game KW - Mexicali KW - Mexican Revolution KW - Mexican War of Independence KW - Mexicans KW - Mexican–American War KW - Mexico City KW - National Policy KW - Newspaper KW - North American Free Trade Agreement KW - Nuevo Santander KW - Oaxaca KW - Octavio Paz KW - Pancho Villa KW - Ping-pong diplomacy KW - Racial segregation KW - Rafael Trujillo KW - Republic of the Rio Grande KW - Return to the Border KW - San Diego–Tijuana KW - Smuggling KW - Superiority (short story) KW - Tampa Bay KW - Tejano KW - The New York Times KW - Tom Wolfe KW - Trade barrier KW - Transnationalism KW - Un-American KW - United States KW - University of Arizona Press KW - Venezuelans N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction --; PART ONE: ORIGINS --; One. A Brief History of the Two Laredos --; Two. Early Baseball on the Border --; Three. Nationalizing the Game --; PART TWO: BECOMING TECOS --; Four. The Players and the Team --; Five. Culture and Masculinity on the Tecos --; PART THREE: THE RIVER JOINS AND THE RIVER DIVIDES --; Six. 1993: The Best of Times --; Seven. 1994: The Worst of Times --; Acknowledgments --; Appendix A: Bibliographic Essay: Border and Nationalisms --; Appendix B: Methods and Perspective --; Notes --; Index; restricted access N2 - From 1985 to 1994 there existed a significant but unheralded experiment in professional baseball. For ten seasons, the Tecolotes de los Dos Laredos (The Owls of the Two Laredos) were the only team in professional sports to represent two nations. Playing in the storied Mexican League (an AAA affiliate of major league baseball), the "Tecos" had home parks on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, in Laredo, Texas and in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. In true border fashion, Mexican and American national anthems were played before each game, and the Tecos were operated by interests in both cities. Baseball on the Border is the story of the rise and unexpected demise of this surprising team. For Alan Klein, a cultural anthropologist specializing in sport, "the border" is almost a nation of its own. Having formed teams of players from both sides of the Rio Grande for almost a century, organizers and followers of the "Border Birds" often join forces but just as frequently squabble with each other in a chronic border tension. Throughout the book, Klein includes firsthand observations of the team and descriptions of its players. Readers will meet Dan Firova, the Tecos' beleaguered manager, a border-region native who nevertheless finds himself a target of the Mexican media. The "Ugly American," Willie Waite, is a young pitcher whose stunning success does nothing to diminish the disdain he has for his Mexican teammates. Ernesto Barraza, "The Trickster," once threw a no-hitter on only seventy-three pitches (on April Fool's Day, appropriately enough), but occasionally shows up at the park missing part of his uniform. And then there is Andres Mora, an aged slugger who, despite three seasons in major league baseball and a life of personal excesses, came within a few home runs of setting the all-time Mexican League record. This is just part of the roster of the Tecos and only a fraction of the lineup of Baseball on the Border. Anyone with an interest in baseball will be enlightened and entertained by this informative book UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400884520 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400884520 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781400884520/original ER -