Costco to Host Book Signing for Buena Park and Mexican American Baseball in Orange County

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Buena Park is today home to 80,000 people within its 10 square miles. In 1887, a Chicago grocer, who purchased land for a cattle ranch, was persuaded by the Santa Fe Railroad to found a town instead. But it was the Southern Pacific Railroad that made Buena Park an agricultural railhead. The Lily Creamery was built in 1889, marking the town’s first industry. Today Buena Park, a city of residential, commercial, and industrial development, is famous for tourist attractions such as Medieval Times, Movieland Wax Museum, and Knott’s Berry Farm.

Mexican American Baseball in Orange County celebrates the once-vibrant culture of baseball and softball teams from Placentia, Anaheim, Santa Ana, Westminster, San Juan Capistrano, and nearby towns. Players from the barrios and colonias of La Fábrica, Campo Colorado, La Jolla, Logan, Cypress Street, El Modena, and La Colonia Independencia, among others, affirmed their Mexican and American identities through their sport. Such legendary teams as the Placentia Merchants, the Juveniles of La Habra, the Lionettes de Orange, the Toreros of Westminster, and the Road Kings of Colonia 17th made weekends memorable.

Dean O. Dixon is a past president of the Buena Park Historical Society and many of the nearly 200 images in this book come from the historical society’s archives.

Authors Richard A. Santillán, professor emeritus at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and coauthors Susan C. Luévano, librarian at California State University, Long Beach; Luis F. Fernández, public historian specializing in Mexican American history; and Angelina F. Veyna, professor at Santa Ana College, serve as advisors to the Latino Baseball History Project in San Bernardino.

Join the Authors for a Book Signing!
Where:  Costco
101 N Beach Blvd., La Habra CA 90631
When:  Saturday, June 15th, 2013; 12:00 —3:00 p.m.
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Available at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through Arcadia Publishing at www.arcadiapublishing.com or (888)-313-2665.  

Arcadia Publishing is the leading publisher of local and regional history in the United States.  Our mission is to make history accessible and meaningful through the publication of books on the heritage of America’s people and places.  Have we done a book on your town?  Visit www.arcadiapublishing.com.

Buena Park
by Dean O. Dixon
Images of America Series
128 pages/ softcover
 Published: November 16, 2004

Mexican American Baseball in Orange County
by Richard A. Santillan, Susan C. Luevano, Luis F. Fernandez, Angelina F. Veyna, Forword by Gustavo Arellano
Images of Baseball Series
128 pages/ softcover
 Published: April 8, 2013