This Love Is Not for Cowards
This Love Is Not for Cowards, is a book I really enjoy because often time as history students when we read articles or books, they can be very clinical and hard to read that’s
Ciudad Juarez: Violence and Futbol
Robert Andrew Powell’s memoir, “This Love is Not for Cowards,” describes his experiences in Ciudad Juarez beginning in December 2009, one of the world’s most violent cities. Powell explains his initial love with Juarez
First Reaction to Raceball
For the Book Club assignment, I am reading Rob Ruck’s Raceball; and I have so far read the introduction and the book’s first two chapters. I did not have a great understanding of baseball’s
Book Club Kalev Review
The book I have chosen, Futbolera, looks at how culture has accepted women in sports in Latin America throughout the years. The term futbolera is a name for a girl or a woman who
The Beginning of Black Baseball
The introduction, chapter one and two, of Raceball by Rob Ruck discussed the current state of African-Americans in baseball as well as their beginnings. The introduction focused heavily on more modern times, and how
The Healing of Fútbol
This Love is Not for Cowards starts off telling a wonderful story of a soccer team called Indios of Ciudad Juárez fútbol club. It details the success the soccer team was experiencing as well
Baseball: The Great Equalizer or Another Avenue of Racism?
For our book club project I am reading Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game. It focuses mainly on issues of race relations in baseball, and looks back at the
A Violent City & Its Struggling Team
This Love is Not for Cowards starts in its introduction with a Cinderella story coming to fruition like the ending of a movie the minor league underdog has advanced to the primary league. It
Juarez 1-3
I am already super into this book. I chose it because I love soccer and the story concept sounded similar to that of Santiago Muñez in Goal which has always been a personal favorite
Raceball Response
These first two chapters were truly fascinating to me. Before reading these chapters, really the only thing that I knew about race in baseball was about Jackie Robinson and he impact on baseball. But
