[2] Coincidentally, the tournament was ongoing while anti-Castro Cuban exiles, supported by the United States, stormed the Bay of Pigs.

[3] The tryouts for the Cuban national team were held simultaneously to the establishment of INDER and the replacement of professional sports with amateurism in Cuba, including the abolition of the professional Cuban Winter League.

[2] However, Guatemala, Nicaragua and the Netherlands Antilles all tied with a record of 1-3, playing an extra series to decide who would advance to the final round; Guatemala defeated Nicaragua 6-5 and the Netherlands Antilles 8-1 to qualify for the final.

[3] Cuban [2] In the decisive stage, Cuba again went undefeated, besting Panama (12–3), Guatemala (13–2), Mexico (13–1), Costa Rica (12–2), and Venezuela (9–3).

Three of them, Bert Campaneris, Tito Fuentes, and José Miguel Pineda, signed major league contracts; Campaneris and Fuentes went on to have long major league careers, while Pineda ultimately chose to remain in Cuba.