Pitching Democracy

Tuesday, September 24
11:00AM
Rowan Hall, rm 117

Most baseball fans in the United States are aware of Dominican and other Latin American players on major- and minor-league rosters. Fewer are aware of how Dominicans’ projections of their democratic aspirations onto baseball during the Cold War shaped the system that trains hundreds of Dominican and other international players each year. Author, April Yoder, shares key examples of how Dominicans influenced policymakers and baseball leaders to align Dominican baseball with their democratic values of equal opportunity and political participation.

April Yoder is an Associate Professor in the history program at the University of New Haven.