When reading this article, I was intrigued at the great sense of national identity that Cubans have for the game of baseball, despite it originating in the United States. The author states that baseball
Quote: “Baseball was one aspect of American culture that proved to have irresistible appeal.” This quote stuck out to me after reading both the chapter in Raceball and the article about baseball in Venezuela.
Quote: “Baseball was a powerful force in the democratization and secularization of Cuban culture, at least as an ideal, if not quite so in practice.” While under the reign of the Spanish, Cuba experienced
Knew: Before reading this article, I already knew a little bit about how sport was used for Americanization purposes. I knew some of this from our class discussions, and also from my collection of
Coming into the two readings, Raceball by Rob Ruck, and The Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban Baseball by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, There are some things that I did know but there are
Reconstruction and the myth of “The Lost Cause” are topics that I’ve spent a decent amount of time over recent years reading and researching through articles and documentaries. Lost Cause ideas perpetuated the completely
This week, we will cover baseball’s history in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and the US. I read an article about Cuba and how baseball started and developed in that country over the years. The
The readings I did this week were Chapter One of Raceball and Chapter Two of “Baseball, the Lost Cause, and the New South in Richmond, Virginia.” Overall, I felt that the two texts showed
“From la bomba to béisbol: sport and the Americanisation of Puerto Rico,1898–1950” is an article in the The International Journal of the History of Sport, written by Roberta J. Park. Park discusses the influence
When I think of the sport of baseball bringing people together, my mind is drawn to the Boston Bombing. I remember David Ortiz giving a speech to the crowd after the bombers had been
