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Tony Castro
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The death of my twin sister
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Mantle: The Best There Ever Was
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Mickey Mantle: America's Prodigal Son
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2002
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Gehrig and the Babe: The Friendship and the Feud
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Maris & Mantle
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DiMag & Mick: Sibling Rivals, Yankee Blood Brothers
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Looking for Hemingway: Spain, The Bullfights and a Final Rite of Passage
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The Prince of South Waco: American Dreams and Great Expectations
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Chicano power: the emergence of Mexican America
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1974
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The Book of Marilyn
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CHICANO POWER, Book Sample
Chicano Power
The Emergence of Mexican America
By Tony Castro
Published 1974 by Saturday Review Press/E.P.Dutton
Copyright 1974, Tony Castro
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The Age of La Raza
IT WAS MIDSUMMER 1972, two weeks after he had turned down a place on his party’s presidential ticket, and Senator Edward M. Kennedy, in that flat Boston twang so reminiscent of the voices of the other Kennedys, was recalling the pa
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“One had to be more discerning in recognizing other Yankees players. And a program would have been of little help. In 1923, the Yankee uniforms were blank on the back. The team did not introduce uniform numbers until 1929; Ruth was given No. 3 because he batted third in the lineup and Gehrig was given No. 4 because he batted fourth. In 1923, the Yankees did not even have their famous interlocking N and Y on the left breast of their uniforms. The only similarity of those Yankees home uniforms with those of later years were the pinstripes.”
― Gehrig and the Babe: The Friendship and the Feud
― Gehrig and the Babe: The Friendship and the Feud
“Keed, ya ever feel like you were in the circus?” But before Grant could answer, he was startled by Babe’s next words. “I do. All the time. It’s the circus, and I’m one of the freaks.”
― Gehrig and the Babe: The Friendship and the Feud
― Gehrig and the Babe: The Friendship and the Feud
“In baseball, we count everything,” Babe said. “Baseball’s a math teacher’s dream for teaching kids arithmetic. It’s numbers and statistics. It’s long division and decimals. I”
― Gehrig and the Babe: The Friendship and the Feud
― Gehrig and the Babe: The Friendship and the Feud
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