Peter C. Bjarkman

Peter C. Bjarkman
Born(1941-05-19)May 19, 1941
Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
DiedOctober 1, 2018(2018-10-01) (aged 77)
Havana, Cuba
NationalityAmerican
EducationPh.D. Linguistics
Alma materUniversity of Florida
Occupation(s)author, sports historian
Websitewww.bjarkman.com

Peter C. Bjarkman (May 19, 1941 – October 1, 2018[1]) was an American historian, freelance author, and commentator on the baseball played in Cuba after the 1959 Communist revolution.[2] He provided regular internet commentary on Cuban League baseball as a contributing writer for LaVidaBaseball.com[3] and as Senior Writer for the U.S.-based internet website BaseballdeCuba.com and appeared frequently on radio and television sports talk shows as an observer and analyst of the Cuban national sport.[4] He also published more than three dozen books ranging in scope from Major League Baseball history and college and professional basketball history to sports biographies for young adult readers. In spring 2017 Bjarkman was honored with a SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) Henry Chadwick Award, the society's highest research recognition established in 2009, "to honor baseball's great researchers – historians, statisticians, annalists, and archivists – for their invaluable contributions to making baseball the game that links America's present with its past".[5]

  1. ^ Amore, Dom (2018-10-03). "Hartford Native Peter Bjarkman, Foremost Expert, Author On Cuban Baseball, Dies At 77". courant.com. Archived from the original on 2019-02-24. Retrieved 2018-10-03.
  2. ^ Christopher Rhoads (November 9, 2010). "Inside Baseball: This Yanqui is Welcome Inside Cuba's Locker Room". The Wall Street Journal. pp. 1, A16.
  3. ^ LaVidaBaseball.com (Latino Baseball English-language website produced in partnership with the National Baseball Hall of Fame)
  4. ^ BaseballdeCuba.com Archived 2014-07-13 at the Wayback Machine, El Sitio Web del Deporte Nacional de Cuba ("Website of Cuba's National Sport")
  5. ^ "Henry Chadwick Award". Society for American Baseball Research. Retrieved 2024-09-30.