Cuban women’s baseball team trains for Pan American Tournament – October 9, 2009 – xinhuanet.com
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Women who play baseball defy the heritage that men think it is their own. Here is a clip from the 2008 documentary ¿Grandes Ligas? by Cuban director Ernesto Perez Zambrano which challenges that notion.
To view video clip posted to YouTube click, here.
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CUBA: Women Breaking Into a Men’s Game
By Patricia Grogg
“HAVANA, Oct 7 (IPS) – Women’s incursion into baseball, Cuba’s national sport and a bastion of the “machismo” that is so deeply rooted in Cuban culture, has drawn mixed reactions.
Women’s baseball teams in Cuba, which have gradually emerged since 2003, have been winning supporters who are aware of the challenges involved in breaking into one of the “sacred temples of masculinity,” as described by Ernesto Perez Zambrano, director of the documentary “Major Leagues?”
“One day, while I was passing by the Ciudad Deportiva (sports complex) in Havana, I saw female baseball players training there. It was like love at first sight,” Pérez Zambrano told IPS…
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Baseball in Cuba is no Longer a Men’s Sport: Women Play it Too by Carlos Manuel Rubio, Cubanow contributor – Translated by Olga Rosa González Last updated August 25, 2008, 10:57 am
Ernesto Pérez Zambrano’s documentary “¿Grandes Ligas?” shows that baseball can not longer be classified as a men’s sport only. It is practiced by thousands of women in Cuba where 180 teams have been formed already all over the island.
While Cuba’s baseball national team was doing its best to win the gold medal in the Olympic Games and beat the United States, South Korea and Japan -its great rivals- a documentary premiered in Havana showed that Cuban women play baseball too…
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ERNESTO PÉREZ ZAMBRANO: LAS MUJERES… ¡¿TAMBIÉN PELOTERAS?! Por Waldo González López
Estos versos del trovador parecen clave para el joven y talentoso realizador Ernesto Pérez Zambrano, quien, aunque ya había realizado otros, es, sin embargo, con su nuevo documental (estrenado en el contexto de los festejos por el Aniversario 48 de la Federación de Mujeres Cubanas) ¿Grandes Ligas? (en el que aborda las mujeres en la pelota), donde propina un extenso e intenso batazo contra el machismo y los prejuicios con la mujer, que se llevó el home run, se llevó la cerca, y esa bola seguirá volando y llegando a muchos ¿machones… o tarados? que no entienden por qué la mujer, poseedora de todos los derechos que le proporcionó la Revolución, también tiene el de jugar el deporte nacional cubano y formar equipos… de mujeres….
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English translation by Google:
ERNESTO PEREZ ZAMBRANO: WOMEN DO YOU PELOTERAS …? By Waldo Lopez Gonzalez
Absurd to suppose that paradise is only equal good laws, the dream is done by hand and without permission.
These verses seem troubadour key to the young and talented filmmaker Ernesto Perez Zambrano, who, although he had already made other, is, however, with his new documentary (released in the context of the celebrations for the 48 Anniversary of the Federation of Women Cuban) Major Leagues? (Which deals with women at the ball), where an extensive and intensive tip batazo against male chauvinism and prejudice with the woman, who took the home run, took the fence, and that ball will continue flying and reaching many ¿butch or tarados …? they do not understand why the woman, holder of all rights provided him with the Revolution, you also have to play the Cuban national sport and form teams of women….
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