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In this work, we witness the eternal rivalry of Alemandares and Habana in the Cuban Leagues, as well as the battle for Latin American baseball supremacy in the Caribbean World Series.

But he did star in the American baseball league set up in and around Cardiff in the late '30s, a part of our sporting past that seems to have been neglected by local historians.

The dearth of product endorsements by African American baseball players in the pages of the black weeklies did not last into the 1940s.

Other Birthdays: American baseball legend Willie Mays, 72; American musician Bob Seger, 58; actress Susan Brown, 57; Prime Minister Tony Blair, 50.

Robert Burk's Never Just A Game: Players, Owners, and American Baseball to 1920, which appeared in print in 1994, represents this category well.

Exceptionally informative, thoroughly 'reader friendly' in organization and presentation, "Hal Trosky: A Baseball Biography" is an unreservedly recommended addition to community and academic library American Sports Biography collections and American Baseball History supplemental studies reading lists.

Macht offers an accounting of the later years of American baseball great Connie Mack (1862-1956) in this third volume of a trilogy.

Washington, Feb 13 ( ANI ): American baseball star Derek Jeter has reportedly announced on his official Facebook page that he would retire after the 2014 season with 'absolutely no regrets', ending one of the greatest careers in the history of the New York Yankees.

In this biography, author Lester (chairman, the Society for American Baseball Research's Negro Leagues Research Committee) integrates primary source newspaper editorials and letters, written both by and about Foster, into a narrative of Foster's life; often the primary source material is given in its entirety.

In addition to his Baseball America All-America honor, Conforto was also named a second-team All-American by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) and the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) and a third-teamer by Perfect Game USA.

HEAVY HITTERS--Radio Farda has published a package of cards, done in the style of American baseball cards, to show what it calls the 11 "heavy-hitters" of the Green Movement.

Within each chapter, fatalities are grouped into major leagues, African American baseball, minor leagues, and amateurs.

MY new hero is American baseball legend Ken Griffey Jnr, who owed 1,500 dollars to his Cincinnati Reds team-mate Josh Fogg for a gambling debt and paid it in coins.

Simek was named to the All-Northeast Region first team this season by the American Baseball Coaches Association.

There has been an American baseball hall of fame in Cooperstown, New York, since the late 1930s, so a similar one, here in Cardiff is long overdue!