A History of Cuban Baseball, 1864-2006

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Winner, SABR’s Robert Peterson Award for increasing public awareness of Negro League baseball

When Cuba met Japan within the finals of Major League Baseball’s 2006 World Baseball Classic (WBC), many a few of the international target audience were shocked that a purported “amateur” team could challenge for the game’s first true world championship. But people who had paid attention to international tournaments were hardly surprised by Cuba’s strong showing against all-star teams of Puerto Rican, Dominican, Venezuelan, and U.S. major leaguers. The undisputed champions of global baseball, Cuba had reigned supreme for better than a half-century on the avowed American national game.

On this groundbreaking volume, Peter Bjarkman traces the entire arc of island baseball history, from the pioneering era of integrated play within the winter leagues, around the many triumphs of the post-revolution decades, and up through Cuba’s initial WBC triumphs.

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