Los Inicios del Béisbol (Béisbol Begins): Cómo Nemesio Guilló Llevó El Béisbol a Cuba (How Nemesio Guilló Brought Baseball to Cuba) [Spanish]

By Ramon Olivera

Nemesio Guill no viaj de Cuba a Estados Unidos a los once a os solo para encontrar un nuevo deporte e introducirlo en su pa s natal. Pero eso es exactamente lo que sucedi

Nemesio y su hermano mayor llegaron a Alabama en 1858 para asistir a la escuela. Mientras estaban all , conocieron un nuevo deporte que estaba arrasando en todo el pa s: el b isbol. En Cuba, los colonizadores espa oles quer an que los cubanos siguieran las costumbres espa olas, incluidas las corridas de toros. Nemesio cre a que el b isbol reflejaba mejor el esp ritu de los cubanos y cuando regres a casa, llev con l un bate de b isbol para ense arle a jugar a sus amigos. El gobernador espa ol acab prohibiendo el b isbol en Cuba, pero para entonces ya se hab a popularizado. Con el tiempo, los cubanos obtuvieron su independencia y el b isbol se convirti en el deporte nacional

El autor e ilustrador Ram n Olivera comparte la fascinante y verdadera historia de c mo un adolescente llev el b isbol de Estados Unidos a Cuba

Nemesio Guill 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 Spanish customs, including bullfighting. Nemesio believed that baseball better reflected the spirit of the Cuban people, and when he returned home, he brought along a baseball bat so he could introduce the game to his friends. The Spanish governor eventually banned b isbol, as it became known, from being played in Cuba, but by that point it had already caught on. In time, the Cubans gained their independence, and baseball became the national sport

Author and illustrator Ramon Olivera shares the fascinating true story of how a teenage boy brought b isbol from the United States to Cuba Now in Spanish

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN: B0G4T5M2B2
• ISBN13: 9798348051761
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Millbrook Press (Tm)
• Length: 48 Pages
• Age Range: 6 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 5