Perhaps there is nothing that our people can use to better express their feelings through sport. Perhaps there is no other way to more faithfully represent our hopes or the imagination that surrounds us through peaceful imitation in the competitive arena than baseball5.
Cuba was crowned world champion again in Hong Kong. With electrifying defense, an offense that pushed back those who challenged them, and quick legs, the girls and boys carried the cultural heritage of their small nation around the world.
Who on this baseball island hasn’t hit the ball on their block using the perfect square of street corners? So we imitated the greats, our gods, and as children we thought we were champions.
“For the second time, Cuba is world champion in baseball5. The Four Corners team reached the final undefeated and beat Japan in the deciding game. Congratulations, champions. Thank you for so passionately defending a sport that comes from the heart of home: our neighborhoods.
This was said by a Cuban who has not forgotten the emotions of the four corners; This is what the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, said when he congratulated the team, once again led by the wisdom and security of Pablo Terry.
From October 7th to last Saturday, we saw in the players of Baseball 5 the beauty of our roots that made this discipline take off worldwide. The possibility of giving it to us as a sport that has already been included in the Youth Olympic Games is the result of our intelligence, our resilience but also our creativity to transform our neighborhoods into a stadium where many games are held.
It fills us with healthy pride that the World Baseball and Softball Confederation has reached such heights in the context of the internationalization and growth of its sports, Baseball5, and even more so what its own President, Ricardo Fraccari, said when explaining the new competition modality in the November 2017 expressed.
“We saw what you know as Four Corners in Havana on one of our trips and we have adopted it with slight variations and have already tried it successfully in countries like India and Africa. We have to go to countries where baseball is not a big sport. We know many of them don’t have pitches, gloves or bats, but with this method we will get there.
On the 23rd of the same month and year he went one step further: “We decided to present him in Cuba, because that is where he was born.
In less than a year, Cuba has already had national championships, entered the international wbsc calendar and has since won every tournament it has participated in, from regional to world championships, in the senior and junior categories.
Beisbol5 looks like Cuba, and he clearly finds his natural expression there. It is also the essence of a society that has not deviated from its principles of inclusion and the emancipation of women. How exciting it was to see Haila González with the World Cup Most Valuable Player trophy, the same trophy that Briandy Molina had already won twice in a row or her teammates.
This young sport, our pride and joy, is now the best collective sport in the country.
