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The Cuban National Series (Spanish: Serie Nacional de Béisbol, SNB) is a domestic baseball competition in Cuba.Formed after the dissolution of the Cuban League in the wake of the Cuban Revolution, the National Series is a part of the Cuban baseball league system.
The Tampa Bay Rays played the Cuba national baseball team on March 22, 2016, in Havana's Estadio Latinoamericano. The Tampa Bay Rays defeated the Cuba national baseball team, 4 to 1. The game was attended by U.S. President Barack Obama, Cuba President Raul Castro and Rachel Robinson, the widow of Jackie Robinson. [25]
There are a wide variety of popular sports in Cuba. For instance, baseball, which became highly popular starting in the 1870s, when Nemesio Guillot started the first baseball club in the country. Chess is an example of an international game that gathered tremendous amounts of popularity in Cuba.
Protesters critical of the Cuban government make their presence felt in the United States' 14-2 win over Cuba in the World Baseball Classic semifinals.
'When you get this kind of opportunity, it's fabulous,' says one player. 'Your world didn't end, it continues.'
With Cuba’s team coming to the World Baseball Classic in Miami, politics are in play, says a former congressman.
The Cuban baseball champions are the winners of the highest division in the Cuban baseball league system. Organized baseball in Cuba originated with the Cuban League in 1878, which was dissolved during the Cuban Revolution and replaced by the Cuban National Series in 1961.
This was the first of many memorable seasons that would tie television to the Cuban baseball scene and would establish the game as Cuba's national pastime. "In late October, the station carried the first of what would be regular Cuban Winter League Baseball Games. A crew drove to the stadium in a remote-control truck.