A rich variety of baseball fiction exists south of the Florida Straits and the Rio Grande, but almost none available in English. This collection translates for the first time stories ranging from the highly literary to the vernacular. These inventive and entertaining stories reveal the place of baseball in Latin America. Mixing fan and fandom, baseball and politics, rural and urban life, sexism and poverty, Kill the Ampaya! reveals how baseball shapes the social fabric of everyday Latin American life.

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Swimming upstream / Eduardo del Llano -- Sacrifice / Sandra Tavárez -- Apparition in the brick factory / Sergio Ramírez -- End of the game / Carmen Hernández Peña -- The last voyage of Arcaya the shark / Rodrigo Blanco Calderón -- The stadium / Arturo Arango -- Braces / Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro -- The real thing / Alexis Gómez Rosa -- The Wall / Leonardo Padura -- Winners and losers / Nan Chevalier -- The strange game of the men in blue / José Bobadilla -- Clock reaches the emperor's citadel / Rafael Acevedo -- Big leagues / Salvador Fleján -- How tomboy María learned she could fly / Daniel Reyes German -- The glory of Mamporal / Andrés Eloy Blanco -- A notorious home run / Cezanne Cardona -- The pitcher / Marcial Gala -- Aut at third / Vicente Leñero.