American Baseball in Cuba

The American Series against Major League opponents in Cuba began in 1890 and continued until 1959. Babe Ruth visited Havana in 1920 after his 54 home run season and lost a fortune gambling in the casinos. Jackie Robinson played spring training in Cuba prior to breaking baseball’s color line in 1947. Ty Cobb and Christy Mathewson played baseball games in Cuba. After a night of drinking, the writer Ernest Hemingway engaged the Brooklyn Dodgers’ Hugh Casey in a boxing match at his Havana home. Rick Feingold presented this lecture at the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball at the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He has written for the Boston Herald on the topic of baseball in the Caribbean.

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