To U.S. sports fans, it was long known simply as "The Forbidden Isle."

​​Mr. Sports Travel has visited this baseball hotbed and was granted unprecedented access to its players, academies, sports institutes and ballparks across the countries 14 provinces. He shares his unique perspective about Cuban baseball in "A World in a Ballpark: Baseball Goes Global," which is available for purchase in the Shop.

Also see his appearance on ESPN's Outside the Lines (below left). His five-part series on Cuban baseball was featured on MLB.com in 2004.