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Castro's Curveball
Language: en
Pages: 308
Authors: Tim Wendel
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-07-25 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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When an old scrapbook stirs memories, Billy Bryan looks back to the year 1947 when he was playing winter ball in Cuba, enjoying Havana's decadent nightlife, and
Escape from Castro's Cuba
Language: en
Pages: 264
Authors: Tim Wendel
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-03 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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In this visionary sequel to Castro’s Curveball, former Minor League catcher Billy Bryan finds himself back in Havana in 2016 with a small film role. He soon r
Cancer Crossings
Language: en
Pages: 244
Authors: Tim Wendel
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-04-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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When Eric Wendel was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 1966, the survival rate was 10 percent. Today, it is 90 percent. Even as politicians call fo
Far from Home
Language: en
Pages: 164
Authors: Tim Wendel
Categories: Photography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: National Geographic Books

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Photographer Villegas and sportswriter Wendel dramatically reveal the energy, talent, and hard-driving ambition of baseball players from Venezuela to the Domini
Fidel Castro and Baseball
Language: en
Pages: 400
Authors: Peter C. Bjarkman
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-12-07 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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Few political figures of the modern age have been so vilified as Fidel Castro, and both the vilification and worship generated by the Cuban leader have combined