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Fidel Castro and baseball : the untold story
- Title
- Fidel Castro and baseball : the untold story / Peter C. Bjarkman.
- Author
- Bjarkman, Peter C.
- Publication
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2019]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 19-2217 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xxxiii, 364 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- 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.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Prologue : A Rationale -- Part I: The Myths. "History Will Absolve Me" ; Baseball's Most Outrageous Myth ; The Infamous "Barbudos" Game -- Part II: The Transformation. Sugar Barons and Sugar Kings, and the Death of Cuba's Professional Baseball ; The Grand Socialist Baseball Experiment ; The Other Big Red Machine and Cuba's Dominance of International Baseball -- Part III: The Legacy. The Fictional Personas of Fidel Castro ; The Cuban Baseball Defectors Phenomenon ; The Ultimate Collapse of Cuban Baseball.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-2217
- ISBN
- 9781538110300
- 153811030X
- LCCN
- 2018025364
- 40028762963
- OCLC
- 1036743395
- Author
- Bjarkman, Peter C., author.
- Title
- Fidel Castro and baseball : the untold story / Peter C. Bjarkman.
- Publisher
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Bjarkman, Peter C. Fidel Castro and baseball. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2019] 9781538110317 (DLC) 2018026520
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028762963
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-2217