Stealing Lives: The Globalization of Baseball and the Tragic Story of Alexis Quiroz

Stealing Lives takes a long, hard look at the exploitation and abuse of boys and young men by Major League Baseball teams searching Latin America for cheap baseball talent—placing that hunt in the context of the globalization of baseball. In telling the tragic story of young Alexis Quiróz, a Venezuelan teenager who dreamed of playing for the Chicago Cubs, the authors also reveal Major League Baseball's pattern of violation of human rights and labor standards in its practices in Latin Americ...