000			02012cam a22003738i 4500
001			on1036743395
003			OCoLC
005			20190630224234.0
008			180524s2018 mdua b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2018025364
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dOCLCF _dOCLCO _dOCLCQ _dOCLCO _dVKC _dNFG
020			_a9781538110300 _q(cloth ; _qalk. paper)
020			_a153811030X
035			_a(OCoLC)1036743395
042			_apcc
043			_anwcu---
092			_a796.357 _bB626
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aBjarkman, Peter C., _eauthor. _9378884
245	1	0	_aFidel Castro and baseball : _bthe untold story / _cPeter C. Bjarkman.
263			_a1811
264		1	_aLanham : _bRowman & Littlefield, _c[2019]
300			_axiii, 364 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aA 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
520			_aBaseball 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.
600	1	0	_aCastro, Fidel, _d1926-2016. _9404840
650		0	_aBaseball _zCuba _xHistory. _9382302
650		0	_aSports and state _zCuba _xHistory. _9382303
994			_aC0 _bNFG
999			_c285156 _d285156