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Author Williams, Kat D., author

Title Isabel "Lefty" Alvarez : the improbable life of a Cuban American baseball star / Kat D. Williams
Published Lincon : University of Nebraska Press, 2020

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Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. El Cerro -- 2. Refashioning Lefty -- 3. The Passion of the Island -- 4. Coming to America -- 5. Life after the League -- 6. A League of Her Own -- Epilogue -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary "Kat D. Williams traces Isabel "Lefty" Alvarez's life from her childhood in Cuba to her reinvention of herself as a professional American baseball player, illuminating the importance of sport as a source of stability in a life defined by challenges"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Alvarez, Isabel, 1933-
SUBJECT Alvarez, Isabel, 1933-
Subject All-American Girls Professional Baseball League -- History
SUBJECT All-American Girls Professional Baseball League fast
Subject Women baseball players -- United States -- Biography
Women baseball players -- Cuba -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Sports.
Women baseball players
Cuba
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019044424
ISBN 9781496221674
1496221672
1496221656
9781496221650