Cigar History

Baseball has always been America’s favorite pastime. The leisurely, thoughtful pace of the game made cigars the perfect companion to the sport. Going back to the late 1800’s when baseball first [...]

The Great Bambino, the Sultan of Swat, the King of Swing. I speak, of course, of legendary baseball player Babe Ruth. Born in 1895, Ruth played for 22-seasons. Between the years 1919 to 1935, he [...]

Cigars and cigar smoking have long been associated with the fight game. Not so much inside the ring as outside it. Nevertheless, there have certainly been many great fighters who also enjoyed the [...]

Cigars are on one side of the movie screen almost as often as popcorn is on the other. And why not? They make a useful dramatic tool for both heroes and villains in countless great films. Here [...]

Churchills, or Churchill cigars, are almost as well-known as Cubans. Naturally, Churchills are named after famed WW2 Prime Minister Winston Churchill. But it wasn’t always this way. It used to be [...]

“The Cigar Smoking World Championship was born out of the true passion of cigars combined with the beauty of the moments spent sharing this passion with like-minded people from all over the [...]

Can you imagine what it was like to smoke the first-ever cigar? Not one of the crude creations of rolled tobacco that was burned by ancient Mayans in Central America. But the first true cigar, [...]

It’s the 20’s again, what better time to learn a thing or two about your favorite pastime of lighting up, sitting back, and smoking a cigar. Here are 20 things every cigar smoker should know in [...]

They say Chuck Norris could make an onion cry. Others believe he can unscramble an egg simply by looking at it, or that beneath that his beard is not a chin, but a clenched fist. Indeed it seems [...]

We could simply call him an athlete, but the truth is Michael Jordan is one of the most successful men of the modern world, period. Winner of six NBA championships, owner of the Charlotte [...]