Signed by Author. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket is in as new condition, apart from normal shop shelf wear - contains no tears or chips or other damage. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Sports & Pastimes; Baseball; Signed by Author. ISBN: 0060196602. ISBN/EAN: 9780060196608. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 12469.

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Title

PITCHING AROUND FIDEL: A Journey into the Heart of Cuban Sports

Publisher

HarperCollins, NY

Publication Date

2000

Language

English

ISBN 10

0060196602

ISBN 13

9780060196608

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st edition.

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Fine

Signed

Signed by Author(s)

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Sports & Pastimes

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Synopsis

In a pastiche of observation, personal narrative, interviews, and investigative reporting, S. L. Price, a Senior Writer for Sports Illustrated, describes sports and athletes in today's Cuba. On his many journeys to the island, Price finds a country that celebrates sports like no other and a leader who uses athletics as both symbol and weapon in his country's dying revolution.
In interviews with Teofilo Stevenson, Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez, and Ana Quirot, S. L. Price unearths the truth about sports in Cuba and explores the complex reasons that drive athletes of promise to flee their homeland. Beyond an examination of sports in the hothouse of revolution, Pitching Around Fidel presents a vibrant and realistic portrait of Cuba today, complete with sex-happy tourists, blackouts, Fidel's famous former lover, and Charles Hill, a black nationalist fugitive wanted in the United States for murder and hijacking.

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S. L. Price has been a Senior Writer at Sports Illustrated since 1994.

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