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The Serie Nacional goes back to , when Fidel Castro abolished Cuba’s professional baseball league, along with all other professional sports, and installed a nationalized amateur athletic system. The vision for the new system was to create a globally competitive athletic program that would advertise the success and power of Castro’s socialist ideals on the international stage––a vision similar to that of the former Soviet Union’s athletic program. While Cuba has found international success in boxing, judo, volleyball, and other sports, the crown jewel of the communist Cuban athletic program has always been baseball.
For most of the last six decades, the Cuban national baseball team descended upon various tournaments throughout the world, often with striking all-red uniforms and a roster full of mysterious but fiercely competitive talent, to dominate the competition. Cuba has won 18 of the 25 Baseball World Cups that have been held since the revolution. The country has also won 11 gold medals in baseball—plus one silver and one bronze—at the 14 Pan American Games that have been held in that time. Baseball has been a part of the past five Olympics; Cuba has won three gold medals and two silver medals. Even when competing against top-level Major League talent, Cuba still took
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Heroes, Martyrs, and Political Messiahs in Revolutionary Cuba,
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