Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio, Jr., or Joe, as he was called, dreamed of becoming a major-league baseball player. But he had three strikes against him. He was supposed to become a fisherman like his dad. He was Italian American, and prejudice was everywhere. And he was quiet and awfully shy. But despite all this, Joe became not just a baseball player but a baseball legend.

Presents profiles of fourteen Latino baseball players who, from 1900 through the 1960s, were pioneers of the sport in their home countries and the United States.