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3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Tejada's 2002 AL MVP makes this story even more amazing... Jan 04, 2003
I was a fan of shortstop Miguel Tejada before I read this book and was overjoyed when he won the AL MVP honors this past year. The book opened my eyes to the incredible struggle and long odds that Dominican players - or any Latin players - face to make it in the major leagues. It makes Tejada's accomplishment seem that much more amazing and important to me. His story is interwoven with a lot of baseball history that I would not have otherwise known, and it is one that kids my age and up (8th grade) would enjoy because it makes you think.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Cuatro Balos: A baseball story absent from the sports pages Mar 24, 2000
By Peter Myers
Being a baseball fan since Orlando Cepeda led the Cardinals over Yaz's 1967 Red Sox, I thought I was well versed about the history of minorities in major league baseball. (The Jackie Robinson story became gospel in my house.) After reading "Away Games," I had to eat some humble pie. The sports pages, which I read cover-to-cover as a youth, never made mention on how the Clementes, Tiants, and Marchials made it to the majors. Authors Marcos Breton and Jose Luis Villegas provide that missing story. "Away Games" is about how major baseball exploits young Latino men in the same way that the film "Hoop Dreams" documented basketball's exploitation of inner city black youth. Breton and Villegas elaborate on how the baseball establishment entices Dominicans into their camps and then uses them like throw away parts. I only wish the authors would have kept their focus on Miguel Tejada- "the star" of the book- rather than flip-flopping between his "life and times" with the history of Latino baseball players. (Actually, there are two books in one here- Tejada's baseball journey and the history of major league baseball in the Caribbean.) Far from being an enjoyable book, "Away Games" is often painful to read especially for gung-ho baseball fans; however, it should be included right next to the censored sports page as we're implored to "root, root for the home team."
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
A good book for hard core baseball fans. Oct 03, 1999
Away Games by Marcos Breton is an insightful look at the struggles of Dominican players trying to reach the major leagues. Breton captures a lot of generally unknown history of the Latino ball player in the majors and tells his story through the eyes of Miguel Tejada, the now successful shortstop of the Oakland A's. This is by no means a great tale that will tug at your heartstrings. Instead, what you'll get is a look at a misunderstood population of young men, mostly from extreme poverty, and their unfavorable plight in trying to reach the "Show." If you're a hard core baseball fan, you'll like this book
4 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 Important Issue, Badly Written Jun 09, 2000
By James Carragher
Breton and Villegas make the case that Latin ballplayers are exploited and then, in the overwhelming majority of cases, tossed away by major league teams. Miguel Tejada was one of those who, it turned out, wasn't just cheap filler for an organization's minor league chain, but instead broke through to the majors. This surprised the A's organization which originally ranked him below other Dominicans who have since faded and returned to island obscurity or the life of an undocumented alien in New York City. Unfortunately, the author's case is buried by some truly stilted prose in a narrative that wanders all over the map without giving Tejada himself much more life in the book than as a paradigm for the author's argument. I happen to know already a fair amount about Latin ballplayers so this book brought me neither increased insight into them as a group or to Tejada as an individual.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Excellent story of what happens to latin baseball players. Oct 21, 1999
I have been to the Dominican Republic and to the small town where Miguel Tejada is from and can really feel what he went through to survive in the world of big league baseball. I have been to many of the academy's in the Dominican and I know first hand how hard these young men have to work to even get to the states. The writers should and could of gone into even more details on the lives of these young men when they do not make it to the majors and do not want to go back to there island and end up in Miami or New York.
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