"Just imagine if others jump on this campaign and this gets legs," Alpert said. "If we voted two entire starting lineups of Latino players, wouldn't somebody notice and make the connection to the irony of the game being in Arizona?
"Wouldn't the media have to ask the players questions about it and put the issue back under the spotlight?"
What Alpert is not asking baseball fans to do, however, is compromise their votes. She's not asking them to vote for an undeserving player on the team simply because he is Latino.
She said she doesn't need to.
Alpert, who grew up a Brooklyn Dodgers fan but now cheers for the Phillies, said that by using the known voting logics - popularity, statistics, past performance, career achievement, current play - she can easily come up with 18 Latino starters.
"I really hope people take All-Star voting seriously," said Alpert, whose book, "Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball," chronicles the roles Jewish people played in supporting the Negro Leagues. "Don't just vote for the familiar names.
"I want people to look at the statistics of the Latino players and see that there are a lot of darn good players who deserve All-Star recognition.
"There are a lot of Latin players who are not so famous now who are having darn good years."
Alpert began her initiative by word of mouth and email, simply asking her friends and colleagues to stuff the ballot and encourage others to do the same.
She said she has received messages from people who have blogged about it and posted it on their Facebook pages.
Alpert says she understands the attitude of a lot of fans that sports and politics should not mix. To that she says she would simply point to the Olympics, which is all about politics.
