Full Count
Subtitle: Inside Cuban Baseball (Writing Baseball)
Contributors: Larry Dierker (Foreword)
Edition: 1st Edition edition
Publisher: Southern Illinois University
Published: April 7, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780809323104
Subjects: Baseball; Sports; Sociology Of Sports; Sports & Recreation; Cuba; Baseball - History; Sports & Recreation / Baseball / History; Baseball - General; Social aspects
Description: "In his comprehensive and vibrant picture of baseball in Cuba, Milton H. Jamail explores the sport's relationship to U.S. baseball. Jamail, whose personal love of the game matches that of the Cubans, examines the roots and traditions of baseball on the island and explains why Cubans play such excellent baseball. His analysis of the development of Cuban baseball after the 1959 takeover by Fidel Castro includes a detailed description of the formation of the Cuban amateur baseball system that has dominated international competitions for more than three decades."--