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Bobby Maduro and the Cuban Sugar Kings
Author | : Lou Hernández |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2018-11-29 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781476675268 |
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Roberto "Bobby" Maduro (1916-1986) was a visionary baseball team owner and executive. His dedication to promoting the game internationally from the 1950s through the 1970s remains unrivaled. He headed Havana-based clubs in the Cuban Winter League and teams in the U.S. minor leagues, which helped brand Caribbean baseball in the eyes of North American fans. He co-built the first million-dollar ballpark in Latin America. His Havana stadium was confiscated by Castro's revolution, along with all his accumulated wealth. Maduro began a new life in exile in the U.S., first as a minor league owner, then as a front office executive. He founded the short-lived Inter-American League in 1979, composed of five Caribbean-basin teams and one U.S. entry from his adopted hometown of Miami. Commissioner Bowie Kuhn said of his many achievements, "No one was more dedicated, more knowledgeable or more concerned about the game than Bobby Maduro."
Bobby Maduro and the Cuban Sugar Kings
Author | : Lou Hernández |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2018-11-30 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781476634821 |
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Roberto “Bobby” Maduro (1916–1986) was a visionary baseball team owner and executive. His dedication to promoting the game internationally from the 1950s through the 1970s remains unrivaled. He headed Havana-based clubs in the Cuban Winter League and teams in the U.S. minor leagues, which helped brand Caribbean baseball in the eyes of North American fans. He co-built the first million-dollar ballpark in Latin America. His Havana stadium was confiscated by Castro’s revolution, along with all his accumulated wealth. Maduro began a new life in exile in the U.S., first as a minor league owner, then as a front office executive. He founded the short-lived Inter-American League in 1979, composed of five Caribbean-basin teams and one U.S. entry from his adopted hometown of Miami. Commissioner Bowie Kuhn said of his many achievements, “No one was more dedicated, more knowledgeable or more concerned about the game than Bobby Maduro.”
Last Seasons in Havana
Author | : César Brioso |
Publsiher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2019-03-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781496213778 |
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2020 SABR Baseball Research Award Last Seasons in Havana explores the intersection between Cuba and America's pastime from the late 1950s to the early 1960s, when Fidel Castro overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. César Brioso takes the reader through the triumph of the revolution in 1959 and its impact on professional baseball in the seasons immediately following Castro's rise to power. Baseball in pre?Castro Cuba was enjoying a golden age. The Cuban League, which had been founded in 1878, just two years after the formation of the National League, was thriving under the auspices of organized baseball. Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, players from the Major Leagues, Minor Leagues, and Negro Leagues had come to Cuba to play in the country's wholly integrated winter baseball league. Cuban teams had come to dominate the annual Caribbean Series tournament, and Havana had joined the highest levels of Minor League Baseball, fielding the Havana Sugar Kings of the Class AAA International League. Confidence was high that Havana might one day have a Major League team of its own. But professional baseball became one of the many victims of Castro's Communist revolution. American players stopped participating in the Cuban League, and Cuban teams moved to an amateur, state?sponsored model. Focusing on the final three seasons of the Cuban League (1958-61) and the final two seasons of the Havana Sugar Kings (1959-60), Last Seasons in Havana explores how Castro's rise to power forever altered Cuba and the course of a sport that had become ingrained in the island's culture over the course of almost a century.
Sport in Cuba
Author | : Paula J. Pettavino,Geralyn Pye |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : UTEXAS:059173020703799 |
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Baseball and the Cold War
Author | : Howard Senzel |
Publsiher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UVA:X000302681 |
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Smoke
Author | : Mark Rucker,Peter C. Bjarkman |
Publsiher | : Total Sports |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : UTEXAS:059173007302840 |
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In the 125th anniversary of the first baseball game played on Cuban soil, the history of Cuban baseball has been brought to life like never before.
Sports in Modern America
Author | : William Joseph Baker,John Martin Carroll |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Sports |
ISBN | : UCSC:32106009962694 |
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