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02461aam a2200421 i 4500 001 4C73C2E026B811E994CCD44997128E48 003 SILO 005 20190328032346 008 180524s2019 mdua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2018025364 020 $a 153811030X 020 $a 9781538110300 035 $a (OCoLC)1036743395 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d VKC $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a nwcu--- 100 1 $a Bjarkman, Peter C., $e author. 245 10 $a Fidel Castro and baseball : $b the untold story / $c Peter C. Bjarkman. 264 1 $a Lanham, Maryland : $b Rowman & Littlefield, $c [2019] 300 $a xxxiii, 364 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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 520 $a 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. 600 10 $a Castro, Fidel, $d 1926-2016. 600 17 $a Castro, Fidel, $d 1926-2016. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00052772 650 0 $a Baseball $z Cuba $x History. 650 0 $a Sports and state $z Cuba $x History. 650 7 $a Baseball. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00827904 650 7 $a Sports and state. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01130564 651 7 $a Cuba. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205805 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Bjarkman, Peter C. $t Fidel Castro and baseball. $d Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2019] $z 9781538110317 $w (DLC) 2018026520 941 $a 3 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010020323.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722060803.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190402021030.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4C73C2E026B811E994CCD44997128E48 994 $a C0 $b C@VInitiate Another SILO Locator Search