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- This chronicle of recreational, neighborhood soccer matches captures Miami's love of "the world's game" in a diverse array of settings - a Haitian immigrant community, four stories high in the financial district, and even under the highway.
- A Long Way from Home chronicles the struggles and triumphs of the African-American and Latino players who followed Jackie Robinson into white professional baseball. Playing their minor-league ball in small, remote towns where racial segregation remained a fact of life well into the 1960s, these were the men who, before they could live their big-league dreams, first had to beat Jim Crow. Featuring original, revealing interviews with James "Mudcat" Grant, Grover "Deacon" Jones, Jimmy Wynn, J.R. Richard, Tony Pérez, and Orlando Cepeda, among others.
- Jossie and Miguel Alonso's move into their stately Havana home coincided with the arrival of the Cuban revolution. Through five decades of social upheaval , the couple cared for each other and their house. Now a widow, Jossie still lives there, surrounded by her memories and the echoes of the past.
- The All-American Cuban Comet, is the story of Florida's all-time receiving yards leader, Carlos Alvarez. Alvarez is a Cuban immigrant who assimilated into what was, in the 1960s, an anti-Cuban American culture, by playing, and excelling at, football-what he considered "the most American sport I could think of." At the University of Florida, Alvarez earned All-American honors as a sophomore wide receiver in 1969 as he and quarterback John Reaves helped lead the pass-happy Gators to a 9-1-1 season, capped by a Gator Bowl victory over Tennessee. Over the course of three varsity seasons, Alvarez totaled 172 catches for 2,563 yards and 19 touchdowns. Also during his time in Gainesville, Alvarez participated in anti-Vietnam War protests, actively supported the integration of Florida's football team and was a founding member of one of the country's first student-athlete unions. In 2011, Alvarez became the first foreign-born Hispanic-American to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
- In late 1958, Hollywood's most famous swashbuckler, Errol Flynn, found himself in the middle of a real-life adventure more improbable than the plot of any film he ever made: the Cuban revolution. It was a fitting climax to mid-20th century Cuba's obsession with American movies - a fixation that led Havana to boast of more movie theatres than New York City and Cubans to worship Gone with the Wind and Casablanca. Sixty years later, many of Havana's iconic movie houses are still standing, and the Cuban love affair with Classical Hollywood still haunts the collective imagination.
- Hialeah Park, one of America's most storied horse tracks, was on the verge of closing in 1974. That's when businessman John Brunetti, against the advice of friends and associates, gambled on the ailing racecourse. Forty years later, Brunetti and Hialeah continue to defy the odds.
- In the early 1960s, architect Hilario Candela designed the first venue ever built for powerboat racing: Miami Marine Stadium. An icon of mid-20th century Modernism, the stadium has been battered by the forces of nature and politics, but, to its creator, it's an enduring source of pride.
- The arrest of a Black woman and a white man at a Miami motel in 1955 provides an unexpected glimpse into the era's complex social history.
- Alexis Arguello is considered by many to be the greatest junior lightweight of the 20th century. He is also considered the greatest hero in Nicaraguan history for what he did for his people when his gloves were off.