The Havana Sugar Kings was a Cuban-based team, founded in 1946 by Joe Cambria, an Italian-born scout in the U.S. professional baseball system, and sold in 1954 to Roberto "Bobby" Maduro, a Cuban of Jewish descent. They won league championships in 1947, '48, and '57 as minor-league affiliates of the Senators and Reds, before growing tensions with Castro's government prompted the them to embark on a journey of Homeric proportions. The year was 1960 and the team once known as The Cubans was heading to America. It would take them a full decade to find a permanent home there.
