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Fidel Castro and Baseball - The Untold Story (Hardcover)
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Fidel Castro and Baseball - The Untold Story (Hardcover)
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Few political figures of the modern age have been so vilified as
Fidel Castro, and both the vilification and worship generated by
the Cuban leader have combined to distort the true image of Castro.
The baseball myths attached to Fidel have loomed every bit as large
as the skewed political notions that surround him. Castro was never
a major league pitching prospect, nor did he destroy the Cuban
national pastime in 1962. In Fidel Castro and Baseball: The Untold
Story, Peter C. Bjarkman dispels numerous myths about the Cuban
leader and his association with baseball. In this groundbreaking
study, Bjarkman establishes how Fidel constructed, rather than
dismantled, Cuba's true baseball Golden Age-one that followed
rather than preceded the 1959 revolution. Bjarkman also
demonstrates that Fidel was not at all unique in "politicizing"
baseball as often maintained, since the island sport traces its
roots to the 19th-century revolution. Fidel's avowed devotion to a
non-materialist society would ultimately sow the seeds of collapse
for the baseball empire he built over more than a half-century,
just as the same obsession would finally dismantle the larger
social revolution he had painstakingly authored. A fascinating look
at a controversial figure and his impact on a major sport, this
volume reveals many intriguing insights about Castro and how his
love of the game was tied to Cuba's identity. Fidel Castro and
Baseball will appeal to fans of the sport as well as to those
interested in Cuba's enduring association with baseball.
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