El cuban baseball semutambo ine mavambo ayo mumutambo weBatos uyo maAborigine ekuCuba aimbotamba, kunyanya maTaínos. Vanyori veSpanish vakafamba kuenda kuchitsuwa mukundwa kwenzendo dzakasiyana uye nekoloni vakapa humbowo hweichi chiitiko.
Mutambo uyu waitambirwa mubatey uye yaive nzira yechinyakare yekutamba bhora kuti uirove iyo yaigadzirwa nebwe nemashizha muchimiro chechidimbu chebazi remuti rakatemwa muchimiro chefoshoro.
Pakati pezvimwe zvinhu zvinoenderana, sekutaura kwevanyanzvi vemitauro, pane hukama mune kwakatangira mazwi bate (bat) uye batear (rova) neanowirirana mazwi batey nemabheti anoshandiswa neveTaínos.
Iko hakuna ruzivo nezve nhoroondo ye baseball kusvika 1845 apo Alexander J. Cartwright akatanga timu. knickerbockers, timu iyo kekutanga yakaenda kuNew York nepasirese uye kubva panguva iyoyo mukuita kwemutambo mutsva uyu wakatanga kutekeshera nenyika dzeCaribbean.
Zvinonzi maU.S. Marines ndivo vaikurudzira zvikuru uye Cuba yaive nyika yekutanga kugamuchira chiitiko ichi. Zvinonzi muna 1871, mhuri dzinoverengeka dzakapfuma dzakatumira vana vadzo kunodzidza muzvikoro nemayunivhesiti muUnited States. Nemesio Guillo (muvambi webhora reCuba) naJosé Dolores Amieva nehama dzake mbiri vaive chikamu chemafungu aya akaunza nzira iyi uye akabatsira kusimudzira mutambo wavaiziva muUnited States.
Vakagadzira timu muMatanzas uye vakatanga kutamba pane isina vanhu mijenya. Nhandare yenhoroondo yePalmar del Junco muPueblo Nuevo yakavakwa kare uye yaifungidzirwa seyekutanga yerudzi rwayo pachitsuwa ichi, uko kwakaitika mutambo wekutanga weCuban baseball muna 1874.
Kusvikira muna 1877 mutambo wekutanga wepasi rese nechikwata cheAmerica chakaitwa, muPalmar de Junco, timu iyi yakasvika muMatanzas muchikepe chekudzidzisa cheAmerica. Gore rakatevera, muna 1878, kuda kwebaseball kwakamuka pakati pevanhu veCuba. Iyo Cuban Professional Baseball League yakagadzirwa.
Nhandare dzakavakwa kwese kwese muHavana, uko vateveri vazhinji vakaenda kunoona mitambo ye baseball munzvimbo dzakaita seCanteras de Medina, Melitón, Hacendados, Placer de Peñalver uye Quinta de Torrecillas muPuentes Grandes.
Professional baseball yaidzidziswa muCuba kusvika 1961.
Tsananguro yekwakatangira baseball muCuba uye maAntilles zvinoenderana netsika yechiAborigine yemutambo weBatos HAZVIMWE zvachose kubva munhoroondo, yekuchera matongo uye anthropological maonero. batos mutambo-wakasara-maviri, uko bhora rinopfuudzwa kubva kune rimwe divi kuenda kune rimwe, saka rakafanana nemamwe mitambo muCentral America. Yakafanana nevolleyball kana tenesi, haina chekuita nemutambo weAmerica unonzi baseball. Zvinyorwa zveichi chinofungidzirwa uye chisina kubatana mavambo evaAborigine vane maitiro avo mukusarudzika, semhinduro yekupinda kweva impiriist munzvimbo iyi, asi zvinangwa zvezvematongerwo enyika hazvisi pane humbowo hwesainzi.