Cuba a country with a great baseball history.

  Villa Clara Naranjas the best team

Villa Clara Orange finally won the Cuban baseball championship in 2013, over Matanzas after 17 years.


Villa Clara province Santa Clara is its capital, has a beautiful coastline with scattered keys and gorgeous Caribbean beaches, which tourists flock to in their thousands every week vacation in Cayo Santa Maria.  Cayo Santa Maria

Cuba came into the World Baseball Classic as the most mysterious team in the field and finished as the runner up in
the World Baseball Classic after its 10-6 loss to Japan. Cuba in Japanese
This was a historical tournament, because it showed that other players besides those who are in the Major Leagues can win the championship.



        
World Baseball Classic Cuban Baseball Team

- Pitchers Luis Borroto - Villa Clara Maikel Folch - Ciego de Avila Yulieski Gonzalez - La Habana Pedro Luis Lazo - Pinar del Rio Yadel Marti - Industriales Jonder Martinez - La Habana Yunieski Maya - Pinar del Rio Vicyohandry Odelin - Camaguey Adiel Palma - Cienfuegos Yadiel Pedroso - La Habana Yosvany Perez - Cienfuegos Ormari Romero - Santiago de Cuba Dennis Suarez - Industriales
- Catchers Roger Machado - Ciego de Avila Ariel Pestano - Villa Clara Erier Sanchez - Sancti Spiritus Leslie Anderson - Infielders Ariel Borrero - Villa Clara Michel Enriquez - Isla de la Juventud Yulieski Gourriel - Sancti Spiritus Juan Carlos Moreno - Isla de la Juventud Eduardo Paret - Villa Clara Joan Carlos Pedroso - Las Tunas Rudy Reyes - Industriales
- Outfielders Frederich Cepeda - Sancti Spiritus Yoandy Garlobo - Matanzas Alexei Ramirez - Pinar del Rio Carlos Tabares - Industriales

Cuban Baseball is unfettered by business interests and played for sport and love of the game. And while Cuban players are among the world elite, they are puerile at play. For the baseball enthusiast,what could possibly be better ? With collective recognition a that baseball in North America is more about business than sport. To understand baseball is to understand life. For Mr. Rivera, the story of baseball is the story of the Cuban people. The elemental battle of the Cuban people is joined in the athletic achievements of the revolution.. If you can harness baseball, you can capture the hearts and minds of the Cubans.

"Cuban baseball kicks ass " seems to be the contemporary bromide of Cuban Americans. Cuban people are always conflicted. We love to see Cubans kick ass in the Pan-American games and in the Olympics. Former semi-pro athlete who now resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Mario has difficulty feeling loss for Cuba and her baseball resources which are increasingly being siphoned by the lure of big money in the Major Leagues.
"You can only be idealistic for so long and you can't live on national sentiment", he says referring to the very low paid to Cuban athletes.

Cuban ball players have a great deal to gain from the opening of the game to American influence, is play with certain degrees of passion. Cuba is poised to renegotiate her economic role and as the restrictions on her people are not relaxed, but the "quality" of baseball in the island is certain, on the upward spiral.