商品簡介
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.
作者簡介
Peter C. Bjarkman is widely acknowledged as the leading authority on post-revolution Cuban baseball and a prolific writer and commentator on the sport. He has been interviewed on the subject on national and international radio and television news programs, including NPR, PBS, BBC, and MSNBC. Bjarkman appeared as a Cuba baseball expert on the Travel Channel’s “No Reservations Cuba,” ESPN’s “30 for 30” documentary, Brothers in Exile, and the MLB Productions documentary film Cuba: Island of Baseball. Bjarkman is a contributing writer for the Hall-of-Fame-sponsored website www.LaVidaBaseball.com. He is the author of A History of Cuban Baseball, 1864-2006 (2014) and Cuba’s Baseball Defectors: The Inside Story (2016) which won the SABR Baseball Research Award. He was also awarded the SABR Henry Chadwick Award in 2016, which honors baseball’s great researchers.
