Cuba national baseball team

Cuba
Federation	Federación Cubana de Béisbol

The Cuba national baseball team is a national team of Cuba and is controlled by the Federación Cubana de Béisbol. It represents the nation in senior-level men's international competition. The team is a member of the COPABE. Cuba had been the dominant team in international competition from the 1940s until the late 2000s. They have won 25 of the first 28 Baseball World Cups they have played in, 12 of their first 15 Pan American Games (including 8 in a row from 1971-2007) and 3 of 5 Olympics. Prominent national team members have included Omar Linares, Orestes Kindelan, Jose Contreras, Braudilio Vinent, Orlando Hernandez, Antonio Pacheco, Victor Mesa, Germán Mesa, Lourdes Gourriel Sr., Pedro Luis Lazo, Yulieski Gourriel and Alfredo Despaigne.

Cuba made the finals of every major global baseball tournament from the 1952 Amateur World Series through 2008 Olympics (discounting a regional tournament, the 1959 Pan American Games), 40 straight events, before falling short of the semifinals in the 2009 World Baseball Classic.

A team dubbed as the "Cuban national team" played a series of games in the independent Can-Am Association starting in 2016, although that team was not the formal national team even if half of its members were indeed also members of the hallowed squad.

Managers

• 1926 - Horacio Alfonso
• 1930 - Rafael Almeida
• 1935-1939 - León Rojas
• 1940 - Reinaldo Cordeiro
• 1941 - Joaquin Viego
• 1942-1943 - León Rojas
• 1944 - Pipo de la Noval
• 1946 - Vitico Muñoz
• 1950 - Oscar Reyes
• 1951 - Fabio de la Torre
• 1952 - Clemente Carrera
• 1953 - Osvaldo Castellanos
• 1959 - M. de la Fuente
• 1961 - Clemente Carrera
• 1962-1966 - Gil Torres
• 1967 - Roberto Ledo
• 1969-1982 - Servio Borges
• 1983 - José Miguel Pineda
• 1984 - Pedro Chávez
• 1985 - José Miguel Pineda
• 1986 - Pedro Chávez
• 1987 Pan American Games - Higinio Vélez
• 1987 Intercontinental Cup-1990 Baseball World Cup - Jorge Fuentes
• 1990 Central American and Caribbean Games - Servio Borges
• 1991 Intercontinental Cup - Gerardo Junco
• 1991 Pan American Games-1997 - Jorge Fuentes
• 1998-1999 Pan American Games - Alfonso Urquiola
• 1999 Intercontinental Cup - Carlos Martí
• 2000 - Servio Borges
• 2001 - Higinio Vélez
• 2002 - Héctor Hernández
• 2003-2006 World Baseball Classic - Higinio Vélez
• 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games and 2006 Intercontinental Cup - Rey Vicente Anglada
• 2007 Pan American Games - Victor Mesa (some sources list Rey Vicente Anglada)
• 2007 Baseball World Cup - Rey Vicente Anglada
• 2008 - Antonio Pacheco
• 2009 World Baseball Classic - Higinio Vélez
• 2009 Baseball World Cup - Esteban Lombillo
• 2010 - Eduardo Martín
• 2011 - Alfonso Urquiola
• 2013-2014 - Victor Mesa
• 2015 Pan American Games - Roger Machado
• 2015 Premier 12 - Victor Mesa
• 2017-2018 - Carlos Martí
• 2019 Pan American Games - Rey Vicente Anglada
• 2019 Premier 12 - Miguel Borroto
• 2021 - Armando Ferrer