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Warm Thoughts On a Cold Opening Day
2009-04-06 18:52:00 Warm Thoughts On a Cold Opening Day So Opening Day is upon us. This morning, to usher in the baseball season I was greeted with ice pellets to my face. It doesn’t really feel like baseball season at all, especially after returning from Dunedin to see the last few Jays Spring Training Games. My spirits were lifted ...
By: Mop Up Duty
Ariel Pestano Bio
2009-03-26 12:34:00 Ariel Pestano Bio Harkening back to the last incarnation of the WBC in 2006, there was one player who really caught my attention. This was Cuban catcher Ariel Pestano, mostly for his antics rather than his actual playing skill (though that is not to say he is not a highly skilled player). When I learned that ...
By: Mop Up Duty
Reflections by Comrade Fidel
2009-03-20 19:12:00 Reflections by Comrade Fidel Former Cuban president Fidel Castro has taken to blogging his thoughts on the internet. Topics include the Agonies of Capitalism, Obama’s politics & ethics and…… even the World Baseball Classic! Thanks to Escambray, the newspaper of the province of Sancti Spiritus in Cuba, we can read Fidel’s weblog translated to english. Highlights include: The Baseball ...
By: Mop Up Duty
Defection no guarantee of success for Cuban baseball players in U.S. (AP)
2007-09-12 23:48:00 Just about every Cuban boy hopes to play baseball for the national team in the Olympics. It is only when that wish is taken away — as it was from Francisley Bueno — that thoughts turn to America. Bueno made the 2004 Olympic team, but Cuban officials deemed him a flight risk and left him ...
By: MLB News Blog
Cuban baseball team lineup for Pan American?
2007-07-04 19:30:00 DTCuba.com Cuban baseball officials announced the team that will compete in the upcoming Pan-American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. According to experts, the team combines experienced Posted in Cuba Culture News - Havana Journal ( 15 links from 6 sites)
By: Pan-2007
Cuban baseball team lineup for Pan American?
2007-07-03 17:37:00 DTCuba.com Cuban baseball officials announced the team that will compete in the upcoming Pan-American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. According to experts, the team combines experienced Posted in Cuba Culture News - Havana Journal ( 15 links from 6 sites)
By: Pan-2007
Cuban Baseball
2007-05-30 15:33:00 Cuban Baseball A while back I wrote an article on Cuban infielder Yuliesky Gourriel and Daperman penned an article on the Havana Sugar Kings. These articles I recommend as a primer to the article which I am about to write: a guide to Cuban Baseball. Baseball came to Cuba in the 1860’s, brought by Cubans who studied in ...
By: Mop Up Duty
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