>muh dominicans
>muh puerto ricans
Can we talk about how obvious Cuban dominance in baseball has become in the last five years? Are other "latino" countries even trying?
>>66477428
why'd it drop so steeply starting in the mid 1960s?
>>66477451
seriously nigga?
>>66477451
Embargo made it difficult for Cubans to make it to the US. Professional leagues were also dissolved completely in Cuba, so the entire structure of Cuban baseball was affected. The teams that play there now are technically amateur.
>>66477500
>Embargo made it difficult for Cubans to make it to the US.
No, Cubans are prisoners of their government. Embargo has fuckall to do with it, it is a crime for Cubans to emigrate to any country, not just the U.S.
>>66477456
literally no
>>66477500
>Embargo made it difficult for Cubans to make it to the US.
No, the Cuban government made it illegal to try to leave the country until 1980, when Castro said "if you want to leave, then leave" and 100,000 Cubans took him up on his offer over the course of the next 4 months before he realized how bad it was making him look and stopped it.
>>66477734
>>66477670
So why has Cuban baseball risen in the US in the last five years?
anybody read the book "Old Man and the Sea"?
that old Cuban fucker really loved baseball
>>66477938
>reading books
>>66477967
>not reading books
