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Beisbol on the Air: Essays on Major League Spanish-Language Broadcasters

Beisbol on the Air: Essays on Major League Spanish-Language Broadcasters

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Biographies GeneralBaseball & SoftballLatino Studies

ISBN10: 1476687676
ISBN13: 9781476687674
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Dec 21 2023
Pages: 217
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Both the U.S. population and Major League Baseball rosters have seen dramatic demographic changes over the past 50 years. The nation and the sport are becoming multilingual, with Spanish the unofficial second language. Today, 21 of 30 MLB teams broadcast at least some games in Spanish.

Filling a gap in the literature of baseball, this collection of new essays examines the history of the game in Spanish, from the earliest locutores who called the plays for Latin American audiences to the League's expansion into cities with large Latino populations--Los Angeles, Houston and Miami to name a few--that made talented sportscasters for the fanaticos a business necessity.

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