1868 1st Baseball Game between Americans and Cubans

[Roland 49]

1868 1st Baseball Game between Americans and Cubans. In 1868, in the port of Matanzas, there was a schooner and its sailors found out that there was a baseball team in Havana, and they challenged them to go to Matanzas to play. The players from the Havana team went with a group of 25 players and from there they chose the 10 that would play that game, the referee was Leopoldo de Sola, who was the first referee of Cuba, the Cuban team won that game held in El Palmar de Junco, it was the first international baseball match, In 1879 the Hot Bitters team visited us in Havana, the North Americans winning by a wide margin, they played on the grounds of Club Habana in El Vedado, the newspaper "El Triunfo" on Tuesday, December 23, 1879 gives details of this game, the Attending public impressed by the wonderful way of playing, by the Cubans Carlos Zaldo highlighted that for the 1st time in Cuba he bunted the ball that took him to 1st base, I show some photos.

[jingram058]

It's really quite interesting. I enjoy reading baseball history like this.