Beisbol Begins

Nemesio Guillo didn't travel from Cuba to the United States as an eleven-year-old boy just so he could find a new sport to introduce to his home country. But that's exactly what happened!Nemesio and his older brother came to Alabama in 1858 to attend school. While there, they encountered a new sport that was sweeping the country-baseball. Back in Cuba, Spanish colonizers expected Cubans to follow ...