id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
cquilt-19049	Gurprasad, Tiffany	Baseball as an Intersection of Popular Culture & North AMerican Exploitation in the Dominican Republic	2012	11	.pdf	application/pdf	3440	166	49	“1947 onwards marked racial integration in American baseball with players such as Jackie Robinson and Larry Doby opening up the field of organized baseball for Latin American players.” Sugar intensely captures the narrow, burdensome path baseball creates into the Western world for Dominican players, the struggle of adjusting to American culture and the ever- looming machine of the MLB that commodifies Latin American and Caribbean players.28 Accustomed to racially inclusive leagues in the Caribbean and Latin America, players who migrated to American baseball were largely unprepared for the level of discrimination and racism entrenched in American society.	cache/cquilt-19049.pdf	txt/cquilt-19049.txt