Saludos Mi Gente

Baseball is more than a game. It has become a way to measure time and retell history. The game has a way of injecting itself into important and historic events. During the U.S. Civil War, northern and southern troops would take a break from fighting to play a game of baseball transforming bloody battle fields into rudimentary ball fields. For many of the troops this time in the service was their (first) introduction to the game. The returning soldiers who had fallen in love with the game carried their passion for baseball back with them to their towns all over the United States. This planted the seeds for the game to truly become America’s pastime.

In 1947 Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey gathered the courage to break the color barrier in Major League Baseball. Martin Luther King Jr. said himself that Jackie’s bravery on the baseball field set the fight for Civil Rights into action. Baseball was the perfect game to help the nation heal after the events of September 11th, 2001, terrorist attacks. We watched first responders, firefighters, and police officers gather on Yankee field in the Bronx to be cheered and honored by our baseball luminaries. Through this blog we hope to highlight the game, its history, and our Latin contribution to baseball.

Team Herencia 21

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El Cooperstown

El Cooperstown

This month’s blog dives into the twenty-two Latino players that are enshrined into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. From Roberto Clemente in 1973 to the latest David...

El Cooperstown

This month’s blog dives into the twenty-two Latino players that are enshrined into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. From Roberto Clemente in 1973 to the latest David...

El Maestro

El Maestro

Martín Magdaleno Dihigo Llanos “Martín Dihigo” was born in 1906. He was raised among the sugar mills in Cidra, a small town in Matanzas, Cuba. By the time the Afro-Cuban...

El Maestro

Martín Magdaleno Dihigo Llanos “Martín Dihigo” was born in 1906. He was raised among the sugar mills in Cidra, a small town in Matanzas, Cuba. By the time the Afro-Cuban...

The Cuban Comet

The Cuban Comet

This month’s blog dives into a short bio of Orestes Miñoso. Perhaps better known as Mr. White Sox, Minnie Miñoso, or the Cuban Comet. He would go from the Negro Leagues...

The Cuban Comet

This month’s blog dives into a short bio of Orestes Miñoso. Perhaps better known as Mr. White Sox, Minnie Miñoso, or the Cuban Comet. He would go from the Negro Leagues...

WBC

WBC

This month we dive into the World Baseball Classic. This FIFA World Cup type of tournament has continued to grow in popularity. This year will bring together twenty baseball crazed nations....

WBC

This month we dive into the World Baseball Classic. This FIFA World Cup type of tournament has continued to grow in popularity. This year will bring together twenty baseball crazed nations....

February Baseball!

February Baseball!

This month we dive into a tournament most American baseball fans are not familiar with. It’s called the Serie del Caribe or Caribbean World Series. If you can’t wait for...

February Baseball!

This month we dive into a tournament most American baseball fans are not familiar with. It’s called the Serie del Caribe or Caribbean World Series. If you can’t wait for...