Why is there so much talk about baseball, especially Joe DiMaggio, in The Old Man and the Sea?
Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea takes place in and around Cuba. The love of baseball began to grow in Cuba during the late 1800s, and by the time of the action in The Old Man and the Sea, baseball had become a national sport and pastime, much like, say, hockey in Canada or soccer (football) in Brazil.
