Abstract
This article explores the nexus of sports, nationalism and spectacle by looking at the events surrounding the homecoming of Cuban pitching great, Adolfo Luque to Havana in 1923. I focus on the achievements of Luque and the subsequent appropriations of these triumphs in an official parade and a popular theatrical tribute in order to demonstrate how baseball figures prominently in processes of fashioning an authoritative yet familiar Cuban nationalism (cubanidad) within the larger context of ongoing American political and economic interventionism during these early decades of the Cuban Republic. Further, through a detailed account and semiotic analysis of the receptions for Luque, I argue for considering not only the multiple registers of cubanidad but also how these various interests and voices simultaneously depend upon and compete with one another to assert their claims to Cubanness.
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