A Fan's Tribute to Cuban Baseball - http://www.cubanball.com/
The history of baseball in Cuba, including foreign players who played there, as well as information on Cubans playing in US Major and Negro Leagues. Includes many photos of baseball cards and other collectibles. |
Baseball in Cuba - http://www.hardball.net/files/baseball_in_cuba.htm
Photos and commentary from a US Men's Senior Baseball League game in Cienfuegos. |
Cuban Baseball: Ideology, Politics, and Market Forces - http://www.uwnews.org/relatedcontent/2005/March/rc_parentID9167_thisID9213.doc
An economist analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of state-controlled leagues, particularly in comparison to the market-driven US system. |
El Pasatiempo Nacional - http://www.ericenders.com/cubaball.htm
A US fan describes major league games in Havana and Pinar del Rio, along with conversations with elderly fans and observations of young players. |
Foul Ball: How a communist dictatorship and a U.S. embargo has silenced a Cuban historian. - http://www.reason.com/news/show/28439.html
A portrait of Cuban baseball historian Severo Nieto, who has reconstructed the statistical records of professional leagues since 1877. |
Stealing Home - http://www.pbs.org/stealinghome/index.html
The PBS film explains the current Cuba major league system, with information on each team and player statistics, then considers the impact of defections to US professional leagues. |
Studying Baseball -- Havana Style - http://www.colleges.org/international/las/cuba/henager_article.html
A US college professor describes his travel to research literary and journalistic representations of baseball in Cuba from the late 1870s to the early 1890s, which he found to be "marked by preliminary signs of the island’s problematic connections with its powerful neighbor". |