Cuba Baseball League News

José Altuve, Yuli Gurriel and the rest of the Astros' Latino players walked into Guaranteed Rate Field to the smell of a Dominican breakfast.

An elite athlete who left Cuba to chase his dreams of playing professional baseball is now garnering a great deal of attention in the minors.

Gio González just can’t believe how fast his baseball career has gone by, from a kid with a dream to a man whose goal is to win a World Series ring.

Not many years ago, José Abreu was demolishing international pitching for the Cuban national team while a ton of major league scouts followed him around the world. Signed by the Chicago White Sox as an amateur free agent October 29, 2013, and now deep int

By Jack McKessy Luis Robert hopes to become the next man up in the White Sox organization, joining a major league club that has had a history of success with its Cuban players. Chicago has reaped the benefits of having former Cuban White Sox players, begi

Baseball was ever present in Jorge Ebro’s childhood in Matanzas, Cuba. He spent hours each day playing baseball in his neighborhood. He followed the Cuban league. Lázaro Junco, the first player to hit 400 home runs in the Cuban league, became his favorite

Soon after the Houston Astros acquired Aledmys Díaz from the Toronto Blue Jays last November, the former All-Star infielder received a brief text message from fellow Cuban native Yuli Gurriel.

Cesar Brioso, journalist and baseball historian, talks to La Vida Baseball about his passion for cuban baseball.

For many Cuban major leaguers who still have family members living in their native island, it’s often uncomfortable if not actually deemed a risky endeavor to talk openly discuss political issues. So it wasn’t a surprise when the Chicago White Sox’s Yoán

The collage of pictures paints a vivid story, impressively highlighting Sylvia Lind’s journey through her beloved baseball world. The Latina who helped create the Futures and the Civil Rights games for Major League Baseball has devoted more than two decad

Baseball captured the imagination of Reynaldo Cruz Diaz well before he became one of the founders of Universo Béisbol, an online digital magazine on Cubans and baseball. The native of Holguin, Cuba, vividly recalls the intensity of listening to games on t

Angel Rodriguez is in a rare position as a Latino in journalism. As the Los Angeles Times’ sports editor since 2015, he sets the tone and sensibility of the sports section at one of the nation’s largest newspapers. Like a general manager in baseball, Ange