and now for the uh more fanciful part of this project. This fictional league is based on the real life Cuban League and other Caribbean leagues, which had major league stars like Dolf Luque and Negro League Hall of Famers like Oscar Charleston. Those Negro League teams (which we now consider major leagues) always featured "Cuban" teams - say, the
New York Cubans and
Cuban Stars, for both league games and barnstorming.
So I decided to provide four guest or barnstorming teams, representing Puerto Rico, Venezuela and the DR. (My original idea was some kind of "New York Americans" team to match the New York Cubans, but I'm not trying to deal with American iconography rn). Not sure if I'll incorporate them into my league (maybe they are all actually based in Havana), but I've been working on this identities for the full Caribbean league, so it was fun for me to add them as precursor teams.