The Quality of Home RunsIn parks and cafes, homes and stadium stands, Cubans talk baseball. Thomas F. Carter contends that when they are analyzing and debating plays, games, teams, and athletes, Cubans are exchanging ideas not just about baseball but also about Cuba and cubanidad, or what it means to be Cuban. The Quality of Home Runs is Carters lively ethnographic exploration of the interconnections between baseball and Cuban identity. Suggesting that baseball is in many