Baseball In Cuba
Baseball is the official sport of Cuba.
Read more about Baseball In Cuba: The Early Years (1864 - 1874), Cuban Baseball Is Organized (1878 - 1898), Cuban Baseball Becomes International (1898 - 1933), Amateur Baseball in Cuba (1933 - 1960), Baseball in Post-Revolutionary Cuba (1961 - Present)
Famous quotes containing the words baseball in, baseball and/or cuba:
“Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)
“The talk shows are stuffed full of sufferers who have regained their health—congressmen who suffered through a serious spell of boozing and skirt-chasing, White House aides who were stricken cruelly with overweening ambition, movie stars and baseball players who came down with acute cases of wanting to trash hotel rooms while under the influence of recreational drugs. Most of them have found God, or at least a publisher.”
—Calvin Trillin (b. 1935)
“Warmest climes but nurse the cruelest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)