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)
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“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)
“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)