Stealing Lives: The Globalization of Baseball and the Tragic Story of Alexis Quiroz

Stealing Lives takes a long, hard look at the exploitation and abuse of boys and young men by Major League Baseball teams searching Latin America for cheap baseball talent—placing that hunt in the context of the globalization of baseball. In telling the tragic story of young Alexis Quiróz, a Venezuelan teenager who dreamed of playing for the Chicago Cubs, the authors also reveal Major League Baseball's pattern of violation of human rights and labor standards in its practices in Latin America.

Author Biography: Arturo Marcano received his law degree from Indiana University Law School in Bloomington and is now a communications and legal consultant at Juntos Interactive Media Network.
David Fidler is Professor of Law at Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington. He has two, single-authored volumes to his credit, International Law and Public Health (Transnational Publishers 2000) and International Law and Infectious Diseases (Clarendon Press 1999).