recipes
congrejos al ajillo
crabs in coconut
domplin con pescado
English steamed fish
fungi
mofongo
Reds, Cincinnati
Red Sox, Boston
Alexander, Manny
as all-white team
curse of the Bambino
signing-bonus payment
Tartabull, José
Williams, Ted
Reed, Alberto
Reilly, Rick
Revitalizing Baseball in Inner Cities (RBI)
Reyes, José
Rickey, Branch
Rincón Cocolo restaurant
Ripken, Cal, Jr.
Risco Bermúdez, René del
Rivera, Ben
Rleal, Sendy
Robby Mar restaurant
Robinson, Jackie
Robles, Rafael
Rodríguez, Aaron
Rodriguez, Alex
Rodríguez, Eddy
Rodríguez, Iván
Rodríguez Montaño, Benancio
Rodríguez Perozo, Evangelina
Rogers, Danilo
Rogers, Eddie
Romero, Charlie
Romero, Ramón
Rosa, Luis
Rosario, Adriano
Rosario, Victor
Rose, Pete
Roseboro, Johnny
Royals, Kansas City
Ruth, Babe
Rymer, Carlos
Sabourín, Emilio
Samuel, Amado
Samuel, Juan
San Francisco Giants
San Pedro de Macorís
affluence
baseball connections
baseball equipment
baseball games and fields
baseball origins
black migrant workers
cricket
crime
fishing and crabbing business
hurricane devastation
immigrant culture
manufacturing zone
origin of town
poets
poverty
production of major-league players
shortstops from
sugar industry
tourism
university
women’s rights
See also Dominican Republic
Sánchez, Alejandro
Sandino, Augusto César
Sandoval, Art
Santa Fe mill
Santa Fe team
Santana, Andrés
Santana, Danny
Santana, Ervin
Santana, Julio
Santana, Marino
Santana, Pedro
Santana, Rafael
Santo Domingo teams
Santos, Ángel Valera de los
Santos, Francisco de los
Santos, Isabel de los
Santos, Victor
Saraceno, Jon
Saturria, Luis
scandals
age falsification
corked bats
Dominican marriages
sex scandal
signing-bonus scams
steroid abuse
violence
World Series fixing
Seattle Mariners
Senators, Washington
Serra, José
Shamsky, Art
Sheffield, Gary
Sherry, Larry
signing bonuses
average
buscones
increase in
scams
significance of
Soriano, Alfonso
Sosa, Rosa Julia
Sosa, Sammy
abandonment of San Pedro
arrogance
charitable foundation
childhood
corked-bat scandal
major-league career
shopping center
steroid scandal
Soulouque, Faustin-Élie
South Porto Rico Sugar Company
Spahn, Warren
St. Louis Browns
St. Louis Cardinals
Stengel, Casey
steroid abuse
Sumner, Charles
Tainos
Tampa Bay Rays
Tartabull, José
Tatis, Fernando
Tetelo Vargas Stadium
Texas Rangers
Abreu, Esdra
academy in San Pedro
Franco, Julio
Minaya, Omar
Sosa, Sammy
Tatis, Fernando
2007 victory over Baltimore Orioles
Thompson, Hank
Tiant, Luis, Sr.
Tigers, Licey
Toledo, Eddy
Toribio, Domingo
Toronto Blue Jays
Torres, Salomón
Trautman, George
Trujillo, Rafael Leónidas
control of baseball
control of sugar mills
dictatorship
extravagance
racial quotas
reconstruction of Santo Domingo
Trujillo, Ramfis
“Trujillo en la Frontera” (Pérez)
United States
Cuban baseball and
Cuban trade embargo
declining interest in baseball
deportation of Dominicans
Dominican immigration to
invasion and occupation of Dominican Republic
manufacturing in San Pedro
origin of baseball in
resentment of foreigners in baseball
spread of baseball throughout Caribbean
sugar consumption
Valverde, José
Vargas, Juan Esteban “Tetelo,”
Tetelo Vargas Stadium
Vásquez, Rafael
Veeck, Bill
Vicini Cabral family
Virgil, Ozzie
Walker, Moses Fleetwood
Washington Nationals
Washington Senators
White Sox, Chicago
Whitman, Walt
Wilder, David
Williams, Ken
Williams, Spin
Williams, Ted
World Series
Andújar’s pitching (1982)
Andújar’s violent outbreak (1985)
Berra’s double play (1955)
billy-goat curse (1945)
Doby, first black to hit home run (1948)
fixing scandal (1919)
Florida Marlins victories
Pedro González in (1964)
Alfredo Griffin in
Robinson’s final season (1956)
Tampa Bay Rays in (2008)
Yankees, New York
Alexander, Manny
Blakely, Gordon
Boston Red Sox curse on
Canó, José
Canó, Robinson
first Dominican pitcher to defeat
González, Pedro
Jiménez, Elvio and Manny
Maris, Roger
Rodriguez, Alex
Soriano, Alfonso
Yastrzemski, Carl
Yawkey, Tom
Young, Cy
Award
MARK KURLANSKY is the New York Times-bestselling author of many books, including The Food of a Younger Land; Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World; Salt: A World History; and The Last Fish Tale: The Fate of the Atlantic and Survival in Gloucester, America’s Oldest Fishing Port and Most Original Town. He reported from the Caribbean for the Chicago Tribune for seven years and wrote both A Continent of Islands: Searching for the Caribbean Destiny and The White Man in the Tree and Other Stories about the area. A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for science writing and a winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, he lives in New York City.