Kill the Ámpaya! The Best Latin American Baseball Fiction

This book will be published in early April to coincide with the opening of 2017 baseball season.

The importance of Caribbean, Mexican, Central American and South American baseball players to the major leagues is undeniable. In recent All-Star games and World Series, almost 25% of the players were from these countries. The recent history of the major leagues is replete with names such as Adolfo Luque, Minnie Miñoso, Louis Aparicio, Roberto Clemente, Rod Carew, Tony Perez, Orlando Cepeda, Juan Marichal, Dave Concepcion and many others. This book provides us with an acute undertanding of the culture out of which their passion for baseball has grown and flowered.

The editor/translator, Dick Cluster, is a fine speaker and is well connected in the sports media world. We are lining up endorsements from current and former players, managers and from sports media notables.

We'll place ads in the SABR baseball blog and magazine, Baseball Digest Magazine, Baseball America, ESPN, and Beckett Baseball magazine.

We will contact the major baseball halls of fame including the Caribbean Baseball Hall of Fame, the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame,the Latino Baseball Hall of Fame, The National Baseball Hall of Fame, the Puerto Rican Baseball Hall of Fame, the Salon de la Fama (Mexico)and the Salon de la Fama (Venezuela) to set up book events.

We are exploring links with major baseball blogs such as mlbtraderumors.com,
Joeblog (Joe Posnanski in Cleveland), Rays Radio, The Brewer Nation, Fenway Frames, Cards in the Community, Curveball Sports, The Sports Mouth, Left Field Lines, Subwaybaseball.com, The Wayniac Nation, Cardinal Insider, Dodger Insider, TribeVibe, Cait Cover the Bases, From the Corner of Edgar and Dave, The Halo Way, Brandon and Brandon, Inside the White Sox, Friar Wire, thatbaseballplayermlb, Like of a Baseball Snagger, Cait Covers the Bases, and other new sites.

Ads will be placed in Library Journal, MLA, CHOICE, Spitball Magazine, Publishers Weekly