Before forging ahead with our main subject, the post-trade career of Sílvano Nieves—whose journey through the vagaries of nineteenth-century professional baseball in Puerto Rico was much more precarious than his uncle’s, and therefore much more typical—merits fuller mention. Informe There are two major reasons why a man nearly fifty years old, two years removed fromContinue reading “El Maquinista: Our Hero’s Nephew (Aside 1)”