June 2010
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Historian Peter Bjarkman confirms Connie Marrero's...
Back in April, a post here took note of the varied dates of birth listed in several credible sources for Cuban pitcher Conrado “Connie” Marrero.
Depending on where one looks, Marrero was born on:
April 25, 1911
Aug. 11, 1911
May 1, 1911
May 1, 1915
Cuban baseball historian Peter Bjarkman saw the post and emailed with this explanation about the April 25, 1911 date which he,...
May 2010
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Cuban no-hit hurler, Rogelio 'Limonar' Martinez...
The author of the first no-hitter thrown at El Gran Stadium de la Habana has died.
Rogelio “Limonar” Martinez died Monday after a fall at his home in Connecticut. He was 91. Here’s the Spanish-language story that ran in Miami’s El Nuevo Herald.
A star of Cuba’s amateur ranks, Martinez pitched for Almendares, Matanzas, Marianao (left) and Habana in the professional...
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Cuba well represented in Latino Baseball Hall of...
Cuba will be well represented in the inaugural class of the Latino Baseball Hall of Fame.
Nine of the 25 to be inducted on May 29 at the Altos de Chavon Amphitheatre in Casa de Campo in the Dominican Republic will be Cuban.
All the inductees will be divided into three groups — Cooperstown Historic, Veterans Committee (active before 1959) and Permanent Induction Committee (active after...
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Hall of Famer Robin Roberts wrote about teammate...
For the second time in less than a 48-hour period, baseball lost one of its legends, and for the second time in that period, I discovered an unexpected connection to Cuban baseball history.
Hall of Fame broadcaster Ernie Harwell died on Tuesday night after a long bout with cancer, and then Hall of Fame pitcher Robin Roberts died Thursday morning of natural causes at age 83.
The Philadelphia...
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Longtime Tigers broadcaster Ernie Harwell lamented...
Sad news this morning that Ernie Harwell, the former longtime Voice of the Tigers, passed away Tuesday night at age 92 after a year-long battle against cancer.
Harwell had retired from the booth in 2002 and during his final broadcast, according to John Lowe’s story in the Detroit Free Press, Harwell lamented having never visited Cuba:
At times during that final broadcast, he reminisced....