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Joe PelaezGuys like Kenny, Matt, you and a few others are members.
You mention something about all those Cuban issue's during the forties, and you're right, they were baseball mad, but I have to remind myself, that they were into baseball almost as long as the Norte Americanos.
I'm looking at a program of the 1871 Troy Haymakers.
One of the earliest professional teams in baseball.
In the line up I see Esteban Bellan at 3B, one of the earliest professional Cuban ballplayers, if not the first.
When he went back to Cuba he helped spread the word of baseball, like if it was the gospel.
Cubans have long been integrated into baseball with a fiery passion.
Many years ago, one of the funniest commentary by a sports writer, and I can't remember his name, was:
"Can you imagine what it would be like, If Cubans took up ice hockey, and had weapon like hockey sticks in their hands?
When I first read that ..... it sent shivers all through my body.
Chad, go after whatever card you want.
It's precisely that kind of Madness that makes you a member of that Unofficial Club.
Jose (the mad)