1940 Cienfuegos Elefantes
Uniform & Team History
This famous Cuban baseball team represented the port city of Cinfuegos, but played its home games in Havana. Their symbol was the elephant, and their slogan was, "The pace of the elephant is slow, but crushing!" Luis Tiant, Sr., father of the former Red Sox great, starred for the Elefantes. Uniform introduced to the Oldtime Baseball Game in 2005.
Oldtime Game History
Its bold colors having made it an instant favorite when it was added to The Game in 2005, it was first worn by Matt Nuzzo of Brown University. He was to have worn it in 2006, but had to bow out because Brown's football team, for which he also played, had begun training camp. The uniform thus went to a fellow Ivy Leaguer, Dan Neczypor of Columbia University. When both players wanted to wear the popular uniform in 2007, it was agreed that the winner of the season series between Brown and Columbia would earn rights to it. Brown won the series, and Nuzzo wore it in 2007, and again in 2008. (Neczypor's consolation prize was the honor of wearing the Hollywood Stars uniform, which debuted in 2007.)
Also worn by:
Luis Vasquez, University of Massachusetts/Boston ('09); Larry Ridley, 7 News ('10).