From CHS to Havana, Cuba, ‘Cal’ Browning is a baseball legend

In the midst of Fidel Castro’s rise to power in Cuba, a left-handed pitcher from western Oklahoma was on the mound for the final game on Cuban soil by an American for the Rochester Red Wings, in July of 1959 against the Havana Sugar Kings.

This 5-foot-11 southpaw, who graduated from Clinton High School, was Calvin “Cal” Browning. He threw in what the Society for American Baseball Research calls, “O…