The Deepest Wounds: A Labor and Environmental History of Sugar in Northeast Brazil (review)
Ruck repeats much of the previously outlined history of black and Caribbean baseball, focusing most on two places he covered in his earlier work: Pittsburgh, home of the Crawfords and the Homestead Grays, and the Dominican Republic, where the immigrant cocolos laid the foundation, later expanded by U.S. marines, for a long-term love of baseball and the export of highly skilled talent. Here, players, unlike black Americans, remain an integral part of their communities.