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Peter C. Bjarkman
Peter C. Bjarkman (born May 19, 1941) is a baseball historian, freelance author, and commentator on the baseball played in Cuba after the 1959 Communist revolution.〔“Inside Baseball: This Yanqui is Welcome Inside Cuba’s Locker Room” (by Christopher Rhoads) in: Wall Street Journal (November 9, 2010), 1, A16. (http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052748704141104575588360930640460?mod=ITP_TEST&mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052748704141104575588360930640460.html%3Fmod%3DITP_TEST)〕 He currently provides regular internet commentary on Cuban League baseball as Senior Writer for the US-based internet website BaseballdeCuba.com and has appeared frequently on radio and television sports talk shows as an observer and analyst of the Cuban national sport.〔BaseballdeCuba.com, El Sitio Web del Deporte Nacional de Cuba (“Website of Cuba’s National Sport”) (http://www.baseballdecuba.com/newsite/index.html)〕 He has 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.
==Biography==
Bjarkman was born and raised in Hartford, Connecticut, and graduated from the East Hartford Public School system in 1959.〔“Peter C. Bjarkman, Author and Traveler” (Capsule Author Biography Page) ()〕 He attend the University of Hartford as an undergraduate where he captained the varsity cross country team, played freshman basketball and varsity baseball, and graduated in 1963 with a degree in English Education. He later earned two masters degrees from the University of Hartford (Education, 1970), and Hartford’s Trinity College (English, 1972), plus a Ph.D. (1976) in linguistics from the University of Florida in Gainesville.〔(); also author entry, Baseball Reference.com ()〕
In the 1960s and early 1970s Bjarkman served as secondary school English teacher and track and field coach in Connecticut (Wethersfield High School), as well as teaching English at American bi-national schools in Bucaramanga, Colombia (1968-1969) and Guayaquil, Ecuador (1971-1972).〔“Peter Bjarkman—aka Dr. Baseball” (by Robert Cannon) in Sports Collectors Digest 20:16 (April 16, 1993), 174-177.〕 After completing his doctorate (with a specialization in Spanish linguistics) he pursued a university teaching career that stretched from 1976 to 1987 and included faculty positions at George Mason University (Fairfax, Virginia), Butler University (Indianapolis), Ball State University (Muncie, Indiana), the University of Colorado (Boulder) and Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana).
Since the early 1980s Bjarkman has resided in Lafayette, Indiana. His extensive travels during the past three decades have involved numerous visits and extended stays in Eastern Europe (especially Croatia) and Cuba (more than three dozen visits since 1997), plus travels in Asia (Japan), Latin American (especially the Caribbean), and much of Western and Eastern Europe.
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