{"id":232356,"date":"2020-12-29T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=232356"},"modified":"2020-12-29T09:00:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T14:00:18","slug":"baseball-culture-nation-and-prosperity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/baseball-culture-nation-and-prosperity\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball: culture, nation and prosperity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Baseball marked me forever. Ever since I was a little boy, I played it and it was the engine and the basis for the practice of any other sport. It helped me in the formation of personality, it made me understand that teamwork is essential to obtain results beyond the individual, and I learned to react under many pressures, to discern and select the best play in fractions of a second.<\/p>\n

From a photojournalist\u2019s perspective, there is no better sport to cover. With baseball, you develop an instinct for anticipation that, in the long run, becomes an essential tool. It is a complex discipline, its technical-tactical characteristics force you to know each move or pitch, because you don\u2019t know when the dynamics of the game will change.<\/p>\n

There is pressure in the stadium, to master perfectly the techniques of photography and photojournalism, so you can get good and different results. But I use that pressure as a stimulus, it generates a flow of adrenaline that I need and enjoy enormously in the exercise of creativity.<\/p>\n

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Lights and shadows in diamonds. Photo: Ricardo L\u00f3pez Hevia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is how I have fully lived unique and transcendent moments of Cuban baseball in the last 20 years.<\/p>\n

Constructing stories through the lens throughout this time has been a great challenge, although, fortunately, I have had the opportunity to always be very close to the protagonists and see actions and reactions in the most complex moments in a game. That is priceless.<\/p>\n

I will keep many stories forever for ethical reasons, but I would tell others and show them as many times as necessary, knowing the importance they have in preserving the historical memory of the sport and the nation.<\/p>\n

Without the image, you cannot speak of memory. The human being needs to see, that the moments be illustrated to understand history, admire it and respect it. In the case of baseball, the rescue involves using all the images to sustain our heritage, creating accesses to them and multiplying their dissemination in each space.<\/p>\n