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Fidel Castro and baseball : the untold story / Peter C. Bjarkman.
Van Pelt Library GV863.25.A1 B53 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bjarkman, Peter C., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Castro, Fidel, 1926-2016.
- Castro, Fidel.
- Baseball--Cuba--History.
- Baseball.
- Sports and state--Cuba--History.
- Sports and state.
- History.
- Cuba.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxxiii, 364 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2019]
- Summary:
- Baseball has been as much of a national pastime to Cuba as it has to the U.S., due in no small part to Fidel Castro's love of the game. This book chronicles the central role Castro played in transforming the sport from professional to amateur status in the small island country, which has produced dozens, if not hundreds, of baseball stars.
- Contents:
- A Rationale; Part I: The Myths; 1 "History Will Absolve Me"; 2 Baseball's Most Outrageous Myth; 3 The Infamous "Barbudos" Game; Part II: The Transformation; 4 Sugar Barons and Sugar Kings, and the Death of Cuba's Professional Baseball; 5 The Grand Socialist Baseball Experiment; 6 The Other Big Red Machine and Cuba's Dominance of International Baseball; Part III: The Legacy; 7 The Fictional Personas of Fidel Castro; 8 The Cuban Baseball Defectors Phenomenon; 9 The Ultimate Collapse of Cuban Baseball; Notes
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Bjarkman, Peter C. Fidel Castro and baseball.
- ISBN:
- 9781538110300
- 153811030X
- OCLC:
- 1036743395
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