Comments on: My Cuban Baseball Experience

By: joeab

joeab — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:57:26 +0000

Excellent post, and your trip looked fascinating. I love all the little cultural differences even though it’s the same game.

I had to wonder how bad the ladies pisser was!

By: Only Built For Cuban Linx « Mop Up Duty | Baseball News Sabermetric | Baseball History Bio

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 11:36:06 +0000

[...] to Chef Raekwon for putting out a pretty solid album. You see, this past winter I ventured to Cuba to witness Cuban Baseball. It had a profound effect on me to say the very least. Much of the [...]

By: The Greatest Umpire Ever: Omar Lucero « Mop Up Duty | Baseball News Sabermetric | Baseball History Bio

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:45:53 +0000

[...] long ago I visited Cuba to see some baseball games in Havana, which I documented in My Cuban Baseball Experience. During [...]

By: Drew

Drew — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:50:40 +0000

Great article. That bathroom looked just like the ones in Wrigley Field!

By: Omar Lucero: the best third strike call in the Cuban League | Cuban Ball Players

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:29:15 +0000

[...] fan Callum visited Cuba and he narrated his experience in his blog Mop up Duty. Callum wrote in his blog the following about home plate umpire in that game he watched in Cuba: [...]

By: The Baltimore Orioles Play In Havana

The Baltimore Orioles Play In Havana — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:25:46 +0000

[...] posting My Cuban Baseball Experience, many of our readers contacted me to share their own Cuban baseball experiences. A few of them [...]

By: Callum

Callum — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:49:40 +0000

Jack:

Baseball came to Cuba in the 1860’s, brought by Cubans who studied in the United States and American sailors in Cuban ports. It quickly spread through the island and took hold with the Cuban people.

Soon after this, the first Cuban War of Independence against its Spanish rulers spurred Spanish authorities in 1869 to ban playing the sport in Cuba. The reasons were because Cubans began to prefer baseball to viewing bullfights, which Cubans were expected to dutifully attend as homage to their Spanish rulers in an informal cultural mandate. As such, baseball became symbolic of freedom and egalitarianism to the Cuban people.