Baseball made its way to Cuba sometime around the mid-1860s or the 1870s, roughly thirty years after it was supposed to have begun in the United States. It was brought to Havana by middle-and upper-class Cubans who were studying in the United States. Both Estéban Bellán, who played on Fordham University’s baseball team in 1871, and Nemiso Guillo, who was at the University of Alabama roughly ten
