Cuba’s baseball heritage on display at Burbank Central Library – Los Angeles Times

Terry Cannon, executive director of the Baseball Reliquary, recently launched an exhibit at the Burbank Central Library called “Feeling the Heat: Cuba’s Baseball Heritage,” which highlights Cuba’s extensive history in the sport.

The Baseball Reliquary is a nonprofit organization that Cannon, a Pasadena librarian, runs and is a traveling baseball museum of sorts. It has organized numerous exhibits that have been on display in Burbank, Pasadena, South Pasadena and Arcadia.

Cannon teamed up with Canadian baseball memorabilia collector Mark Rucker, who has a large collection of Cuban baseball items and has written about the history of the sport in Cuba.

“The exhibit is to provide a taste of Cuban baseball history and to acquaint people with some of the significant figures and issues that Cuban baseball faced,” Cannon said.