February 2011
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January 2011
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Friendship with Chuck Connors helped Mike Sandlock...
Looking to identify players in this poster of the 1948-49 Almendares team, the unexpected words lept from the caption: el hijo de Sandlock, “Sandlock’s son.” Sandlock’s son, Mike — he’s the then-6-year-old boy sitting on the ground, wearing a Montreal Royals uniform — had come across this blog weeks earlier and offered to put me in tough with his father,...
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WatchWatch
El Nuevo Herald interview with Cuban Bseball Hall of Fame catcher/first baseman Andres Fleitas posted at Daily Motion. Enshrined in 1971, Fleitas played 14 seasons in Cuba — 10 with Almendares — between 1942-55. He was the league’s Most Valuable Player during the 1946-47 season as Almendares rallied late in the season to overtake Habana.
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Jan 1: On this day in 1959, Fidel Castro came to...
With long-time dictator Fulgencio Batista fleeing Cuba in the early morning hours, Fidel Castro and his band of rebels rode victoriously into the city of Havana on Jan. 1, 1959, forever altering the history of the country, the lives of its people and the course of the sport that had been ingrained in the island’s culture for almost a century. By the end of 1961, Castro had banned...
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