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Cubans play baseball just as Brazilians play soccer - it's their national sport. Pick any street in Havana and you are as likely to see impromptu games taking place as you are to see locals walking to the shops. The sport was introduced to the island by American sailors back in the 1860s.
Banned during the first Cuban War of Independence from Spanish rule in 1869 because Cubans began to prefer it to bullfighting, the baseball ban only increased interest in the sport. Baseball became a symbol of Cuban freedom and independence and even former President Fidel Castro was known to pitch a few balls from the mound in his day.
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