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US Speaker: Baseball and Latin America

July, 2003

Milton Jamail has published articles on Latin American baseball in Baseball America, USA Today Baseball Weekly, Hispanic, Vista, The Houston Chronicle, The Washington Post and Texas Monthly. He has also written more than forty entries on international baseball for the updated Encyclopaedia Britannica. He is the author of Full Count: Inside Cuban Baseball, published by Southern Illinois University Press in 2000. He is currently working on a book that explores the scouting of Venezuela by the Houston Astros.

Since 1987 Jamail has interviewed over 500 professional baseball players from Latin America, and front office personnel from major league organizations concerning the recruitment of players from Latin America. Since 1966, he has traveled extensively in the Caribbean, Mexico and Central America, including visits to baseball training facilities in Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama and Venezuela.

But not only does Jamail have a fascination with baseball, his involvement with Latin America dates back to the mid-1960s and his academic preparation, and fluency in Spanish, gives him a solid understanding of the cultural background of the players, and of Latin America in general.

An experienced public speaker, Jamail has lectured on Latin America throughout the United States, Europe and Latin America.

Jamail lives in Austin, Texas where he is a Lecturer at the University of Texas and writes about Latin American baseball.