Oscar Blas Fernandez Mesa played baseball for Ernest Hemingway's team in Cuba. In this unique memoir, he writes: "For twenty years now, I have been recording my memories. I commit these memories to paper to honor Ernest Hemingway and the kindness he showed to me when I was a child. I also write to share many of the factual details that have never been fully known about his involvement with Cuban children, especially from a totally Cuban point of view."
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Oscar Blas Fernandez Mesa played baseball for Ernest Hemingway's team in Cuba. In this unique memoir, he writes: "For twenty years now, I have been recording my memories. I commit these memories to paper to honor Ernest Hemingway and the kindness he showed to me when I was a child. I also write to share many of the factual details that have never been fully known about his involvement with Cuban children, especially from a totally Cuban point of view."
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Very good. [12, vi, 182, [4] pages. Illustrations. Section on Translation by Susan Hurlich. Editor's Note. Stamp on title page. Inscription from the Adapter on the title page. The 'To' portion is taped over. Remaining inscription reads--with great friendship Brian Gordon Sinclair. Oscar Blas Fernandez Mesa played baseball for Ernest Hemingway's team in Cuba. In this unique memoir, he writes: "For twenty years now, I have been recording my memories. I commit these memories to paper to honor Ernest Hemingway and the kindness he showed to me when I was a child. I also write to share many of the factual details that have never been fully known about his involvement with Cuban children, especially from a totally Cuban point of view." DREAMS (written as the words of the Homerun Kid) "I am a humble man. At least, I hope I am a humble man. But how could I be otherwise? In 1940's San Francisco de Paula we were all humble-poor, proud and humble. That's the way it was then, when I had not yet become Cayuco "Jonronero"-The Homerun Kid. Created by the triumvirate of Susana Hurlich, Oscar Blas Fernandez Mesa (Cayuco) and Brian Gordon Sinclair. The Homerun Kid is based on the memories of Cayuco "Jonronero" as translated by Susana Hurlich. Brian Gordon Sinclair adapted and edited those memories while adding new and original material. From the moment I met Ernest Hemingway's sons, Gregory and Patrick, I became their friend, not just a neighbor and playmate but a friend. I was ten years old and like all ten year olds, I was ready for a challenge, ready to become The Homerun Kid. I was also filled with dreams. I dreamed of having friends from foreign lands. I dreamed of the Christmas Magi arriving with a new baseball glove and uniform and I dreamed of doing something important, of having my name published in the newspaper to be cherished in my memories and shared with my family. Ernest Hemingway made these dreams come true. He and his sons became my friends and now, because of that friendship, I meet people from all over the world. With reporters from the New York Times, I share baseball memories of shiny, new equipment and fun filled games. At international colloquiums, as humbly as possible, I tell great scholars from many nations what it was like to know Ernest Hemingway. But some dreams take longer. I longed to have Papa Hemingway share his memories of the children of San Francisco de Paula. He never did. Always, I went to see the movies of Ernest Hemingway, always hoping to see a reference to the children. Finally, in The Old Man and the Sea, I saw a young boy and knew that this child was special, like my friends. But the movie took place in Cojimar and Papa died before writing about the children and the baseball games of San Francisco de Paula. Now, I am eighty-five years of age and this book may be my last dream. It is my hope to share with you, through love and reverence and humility, the missing details, the true story of The Gigi All-Stars." There are 25 chapters plus photos and special articles in The Homerun Kid. You will enjoy them all. (Oscar Blas Fernandez Mesa, The Homerun Kid, is now deceased. His words represent the only recorded eyewitness account of Ernest Hemingway and his baseball team.).
