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Latinos and Major League Baseball:

Sport, Globalization and the Poetry of Justice Friday 26 April 2002 Franklin Patterson Hall Hampshire College Amherst MA, 01002 Welcome: Lara D. Nielsen Five College CISA Teaching Fellow Session I: "Strangers in the Land: Latin Players and their North American Experience" Samuel O. Regalado, California State University - Stanislaus "Trouble in the Global Ballpartk: The Globalization of Baseball and Violations of International Human Rights and Labor Standards" Arturu Marcano and David Fidler; Indiana University Presented by Arturo Marcano Discussant: Andrew Zimbalist Smith College Session II: "Tato Hates the New York Yankees" Martin Espada Reads Poems about Baseball "Latinos Save Baseball and Boston Finally Gets It" Luke Salisbury Session III: Viva Cepeda! Screening and Discussion with Documentary Filmmaker Mario Diaz