Download or read book The Veracruz Blues written by Mark Winegardner and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1997-02 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on actual events during the turbulent, postwar baseball days of 1946, this captivating, darkly comic novel tells of a group of American players who, frustrated by their treatment at the hands of the major league owners, begin defecting to a Mexican baseball league.