Peter C. Bjarkman, is a widely recognized authority on Cuban baseball history, an avid collector of Cuban game-worn uniforms, and a frequent visitor to the island of Cuba. A past winner of The Sporting News-SABR Award and Macmillan-SABR Award for baseball research, he is also the author of Baseball with a Latin Beat (1994).

"through this and other publications, Peter Bjarkman is doing for Cuban baseball what Ry Cooder has done for Cuban music, helping us appreciate the complexity, creativity, and emotions of a people whose culture and politics have long been intertwined with those of the United States but who have often been made invisible by social attitudes or political barriers.--Sport Literature Association
"the definitive work on Cuban baseball"