Burgos to speak at UI

For those in the Champaign-Urbana area, professor and noted author Adrian Burgos will be giving a talk at the Y Friday Forum this week.  The title of the talk is “Playing for the Dream? Baseball, Latinos, Immigration and the American Dream”. 

Burgos is an associate professor at the University of Illinois and has wrote Playing America’s Game: Baseball, Latinos and the Color Line (a good book if you haven’t read it).  He specializes in Latino and race relations and yes, baseball,