Peter C. Bjarkman (May 19, 1941 – October 1, 2018[1]) was an American historian, freelance author, and commentator on the baseball played in Cuba after the 1959 Communist revolution.

[2] He provided regular internet commentary on Cuban League baseball as a contributing writer for LaVidaBaseball.com[3] 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.

His extensive travels during the past three decades involved numerous visits and extended stays in Eastern Europe (especially Croatia) and Cuba (more than three dozen visits since 1997), plus travels to Asia (Japan), Latin America (especially the Caribbean), and much of Western and Eastern Europe.

[9] The acceptance of Bjarkman as an acknowledged authority on post-1962 Cuban baseball led to numerous electronic and print media appearances and interviews.

Notable among these were several featured interviews on ESPN's "Outside the Lines" with Bob Ley; an appearance in the ESPN Films award-winning "30 for 30" documentary "Brothers in Exile"; the MLB Network 2016 documentary "Cuba: Island of Baseball"; and a central on-camera role in the Travel Channel's airing of Anthony Bourdain's "No Reservations Cuba" (first shown in July 2011).