Kill the Ámpaya! The Best Latin American Baseball Fiction () von Dick Cluster

This is the first English language anthology of translations of baseball stories by major Latin American and Caribbean writers.

Introduction ………………………………………………………………………………..4

Eduardo del Llano, Swimming Upstream ………………………………………………..29

Sandra Tavárez, Sacrifice ………………………………………………………………...39

Sergio Ramírez, Apparition in the Brick Factory …………………………………………42

Carmen Hernández Peña, End of the Game ………………………………………………55

Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, The Last Voyage of Arcaya the Shark ……………………….63

Arturo Arango, The Stadium ……………………………………………………………..79

Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, Braces ………………………………………………………….90

Alexis Gómez Rosa, The Real Thing …………………………………………………….96

Leonardo Padura, The Wall …………………………………………………………….105

Nan Chevalier, Winners and Losers …………………………………………………....117

José Bobadilla, The Strange Game of the Men in Blue ………………………………...128

Rafael Acevedo, Clock Reaches the Emperor’s Citadel ………………………………..146

Salvador Fleján, Big Leagues …………………………………………………………..151

Daniel Reyes German, How Tomboy María Learned She Could Fly ………………….164

Andrés Eloy Blanco, The Glory of Mamporal ………………………………………….176

Cezanne Cardona, An Infamous Home Run …………………………………………....186

Marcial Gala, The Pitcher ……………………………………………………………….197

Vicente Leñero, Aut At Third ……………………………………………………………202

Further Reading ………………………………………………………………………….209

Acknowledgments ……………………………………………………………………….211