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From Cuba's 1850s pioneers to the steady flow of big league talent produced by the island today, this volume captures Cuban baseball's heritage and brings it to life.
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Along with photo archivist and designer Mark Rucker, Peter Bjarkman made three trips to Cuba to gather material for Smoke, a lavish and poignant panorama of the island's national passion from its 19th-century origins to the 1999 victory over the Baltimore Orioles.
Smoke reproduces hundreds of exquisite photographs, trading cards, handbills and other visual artifacts going back to the days when Cuban ballplayers, like their counterparts to the north, struck stony poses with handlebar mustaches and hightop shoes.
"A lot of the stuff was literally crumbling in his hands," Bjarkman says of Rucker's adventures in purchasing and copying memorabilia. "You see the cracks in some of these, and many of them have been greatly computer-enhanced. We have tried to create a pictorial record that's going to last."
Bjarkman and Rucker both hope Smoke will do more than help solidify Cuba's colorful baseball past. They'd like to contribute to its future. -- Indianapolis Star
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- PublisherSportclassic Books
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 1894963148
- ISBN 13 9781894963145
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages272
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