Negro Leagues Database Update: American Series in Cuba, 1904-1915

October 22, 2011 by Gary Ashwill · Leave a Comment

In the 1900s and 1910s, with Cuba newly independent from Spain but under heavy U.S. influence (and sometimes occupation), a baseball exchange formed between the two countries. In the summers teams of the best Cuban players toured the U.S. as the “All-Cubans” or the “Cuban Stars”; in the fall American teams traveled to Havana to […]

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“Havana Heat” by Darryl Brock

February 16, 2011 by Jim Elfers · Leave a Comment

Fans of Darryl Brock will find much to admire in his novel Havana Heat. It is very reminiscent in feel and tone to his classic If I Never Get Back and its sequel Two In the Field. There is no time traveling in this novel but it is aÂ travel back in time. The hero […]

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