Editing Early baseball in Cuba/Club 1
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"Baseball thus appeared in Cuba as early as the end of the U.S. Civil War and was thriving there only a few years later. Bats, balls, leather gloves, and rules for playing the new North American pastime were first carried to Havana by a pair of brothers, Nemesio and Ernesto Guillo . . . when the teenagers returned from a half-decade of high schooling at Alabama's Spring Hill College in 1864. Within mere days they were organizing rudimentary contests . . . in downtown Havana. Less than four years later, the Guillo brothers . . . had formed the Havana Base Ball Club." | "Baseball thus appeared in Cuba as early as the end of the U.S. Civil War and was thriving there only a few years later. Bats, balls, leather gloves, and rules for playing the new North American pastime were first carried to Havana by a pair of brothers, Nemesio and Ernesto Guillo . . . when the teenagers returned from a half-decade of high schooling at Alabama's Spring Hill College in 1864. Within mere days they were organizing rudimentary contests . . . in downtown Havana. Less than four years later, the Guillo brothers . . . had formed the Havana Base Ball Club." | ||
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Eric Ender's "Timeline of International Baseball, at ericenders.com, notes that in December 1878, "the first baseball league outside the United States is formed on Havana." [League profits were reportedly used to support an independent Cuba, leading Spain to briefly ban baseball on the island.] | Eric Ender's "Timeline of International Baseball, at ericenders.com, notes that in December 1878, "the first baseball league outside the United States is formed on Havana." [League profits were reportedly used to support an independent Cuba, leading Spain to briefly ban baseball on the island.] | ||
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