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In 1929 the stadium was opened La Tropical (now Pedro Marrero). The park hosted the Second Central American and Caribbean Games, held in Cuba in 1940. In the period from 1939 to 1944, baseball in Cuba had moments of splendor for the first amateur baseball World Series in the Americas that took place in the capital of the island. Already in 1944, they moved to different countries in Latin America at that time baseball was developing encouragingly to the crowd of fans to stadiums. 

In the neighborhood of the Hill, in 1946, opens the Grand Stade de La Habana (Latin American Stadium today) with a capacity of 35 000 fans, currently up to 55 000 fans. In this field, the Havana Cubans of the Florida International League. The championships of the Cuban Baseball League, which also hosted the major league players and other baseball circles as well as leading figures from the national ball that time, encouraged the development of amateur and professional baseball in Cuba.  

With the triumph of the Revolution, there is a change in professional statutes of the ball, to formally establish the amateur baseball game that lasts until today. These men, who started the movement for Cuban baseball player, planted by his example what would constitute the foundations for today's greatest triumphs.

In Havana, the first amateur championship took place in 1905. In 1914 he founded the National Amateur Baseball League in the country. 

The league held its championships for over 45 years without interruption. In the same year appeared in the interior provinces of the island, local leagues such as Pedro Betancourt, the Amateur League East, the sugar-mill of Camaguey, and the winter of Jovellanos, among others. In 1919, where he is currently the coach terminal of Havana, build a more modern Almendares Park.