| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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Playing America's Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line. By Adrian Burgos Jr. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. xx, 362 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 978-0-520-23646-2. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 978-0-520-25143-4.)
Adrian Burgos Jr. has already made a significant impact on baseball's public history, spurring recognition of Latino players and players from the Negro Leagues. His remarkable first book, Playing America's Game, will have a comparable effect on the game's scholarly interpretation.	1
Much of the work on African Americans and Latinos in baseball focuses on their exclusion from major league baseball (MIB). By incorporating the Caribbean basin, Latin baseball, and Latinos into a transnational equation, Burgos develops a wider, more sophisticated context—a "racialized economy of organized baseball" that moves away from a mlb-centered focus to one that factors in demographic and political changes in the Caribbean basin and United States (p. 143).	2
Burgos underscores how changing racial and national boundaries affected baseball. His work is a measure of the maturation of scholars studying the evolution of baseball in the United States, the black community, and the Caribbean basin. Burgos builds on the work of Jules Tygiel and Warren Goldstein on baseball in the United States, Neil Lanctot, Michael Lomax, and Brad Snyder on the Negro Leagues, and Alan Klein, Milton Jamail, and Tim Wendel on the Caribbean basin. This is one of the best works in the subfield of sport history, one that synthesizes social, cultural, Latino, and American studies.	. . .

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