July 2010
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WatchThis vimeo.com video show the amateur baseball championship at Vedado Tennis Club. Unlike the professional Cuban League, where black and white players shared the same fields since its beginnings in the late 1800s, Cuba’s amateur ranks were not fully integrated. Many amateur teams were affilated with exlusive private clubs, such as Vedado Tennis Club, whose members were weathy Cuban families....
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WatchMany thanks to a reader of this blog from Cuba. He alerted me to this amazing video from a Cuban newsreel of the 1959 Junior World Series between the Havana Sugar Kings of the International League and the Minneapolis Millers of the American Association. The series took place in the months following Fidel Castro’s rise to power on Jan. 1, 1959. Just the next season, the Sugar Kings were...
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Vicente Lopez starred for Almendares
This post is late in coming but I wanted to note that former Cuban League star Vicente Lopez died earlier this month in Miami. He was 83.
Here’s the Spanish-language obituary that ran in Diario Las Americas.
Lopez, who died on July 16, was elected to the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame in 1997. In 10 Cuban League seasons with Almendares, Cienfuegos, Habana and Marianao, he compiled a 21-16...
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