Tim Wendel

"In the spirit of Barack Obama's landmark speech in March confronting racial attitudes...
... amazing, heart-wrenching, and ultimately inspiring stories of players you ought to know more about...
It is a beautifully wrought historical document that also happens to be a work of art."
-- Elysian Fields Quarterly, Spring 2008

"...one of the most beautiful pieces of literature about baseball we have ever held in our hands."
-- Farther off the Wall

"... broad survey of the prominent rise of major-league Latino players."
-- The Wall Street Journal

"More than 100 gripping photographs chronicle more than a century of Latino ballplayers in America..."
-- The Boston Herald

"... terrific book. Highly recommended."
-- Library Journal