Peter C. Bjarkman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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historian
Date of Birth: 19-May-1941
Place of Birth: Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Date of Death: 01-Oct-2018
Profession: sport historian
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Peter C. Bjarkman
- Peter C.
- Bjarkman (May 19, 1941 – October 1, 2018) was an American historian, freelance author, and commentator on the baseball played in Cuba after the 1959 Communist revolution.
- He provided regular internet commentary on Cuban League baseball as a contributing writer for LaVidaBaseball.com 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.
- 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".
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