 Fidel Castro said, “We can say that our athletes are the children of our Revolution and, at the same time, the standard-bearers of that same Revolution.” In 1960, after the abolishment of all professional sports fans shifted their focus to the amateur leagues.In the 1960s once amateur baseball became the main focus there was a strong desire to play and participate in sports.Cuban baseball shed its commercial skin and sought out to advance the social and political aims of the revolution via sport.