Fidel Castro and baseball : the untold story /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bjarkman, Peter C. (Author)
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2019]
Subjects:	Castro, Fidel, > 1926-2016. Baseball > Cuba > History. Sports and state > Cuba > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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