Reserve your spot on 2014 Negro League Historians baseball tour of Cuba
The Negro League Historians baseball tour of Cuba, hosted by SABR member Dr. Layton Revel of the Center for Negro League Baseball Research, will be held November 30-December 6, 2014.
Highlights of the tour are scheduled to include:
- Attend one or two Cuban National Series games in or near Havana
- Visit baseball monuments at the Crostobal Colon necropolis (internment site for many Negro Leaguers, including Cristobal Torriente and Jose Mendez)
- Research at the Cuban national library
- Visit with Rolando Sanchez, the foremost collector of Cuban baseball memorabilia
- Visit with veteran players at Havana’s Estadio Lastinamericano
- Visit to Ernest Hemingway’s estage, the Finca Vigia
- Visit to the site of the former Havana racetrack where Jack Johnson fought Jess Willard in 1919
- Visit to the museum of Cruces and the Martin Dihigo exhibition (accompanied by Martin Dihigo Jr. and family)
- Visit to the Martin Dihigo gravesite in the Cruces cemetery
- Meeting with Sigfredo Barros, baseball beat writer for Granma, the Cuban national newspaper
- Meeting with Manuel Yepe, former Cuban diplomat, on Cuban-American relations
Former Negro Leagues and Washington Senators pitcher Pedro Sierra, a Cuban native, is expected to accompany the group, along with SABR member Kit Krieger, who has organized baseball tours to Cuba for the past 19 years.
Cost for adults ages 21-over: $2,850 (double occupancy); $300 (single supplement). Ages 12-20: $3,000 (double occupancy); $300 (single supplement).
Accomodations: 6 nights in Havana at Parque Central Hotel (5-star); 1 night in Cienfuegos at Hotel Union (4-star).
Meals: All breakfast included; one dinner at Havana’s el Aljibe.
Not included: other meals, beverages, gratuities, Cuban tourist visa, and Cuban departure tax ($25 CUC).
For reservations, or for additional information about the tour, contact Dr. Layton Revel at (469) 951-8156.
For airline/travel information, call tour travel agent Clem Axel Rodriquez at (647) 863-2146.
Originally published: September 12, 2014. Last Updated: September 12, 2014.