After playing the first two rounds of the tournament in Taiwan and Japan, Cuba advanced to the World Baseball Classic semifinals, which along with the championship game are being held at Miami’s ...
There is no pitcher who compares to the success of Pedro Lazo, Cuba’s current pitching coach and living legend. Yoan Moncada and Luis Robert are not Omar Linares or Yuli Gurriel. But that doesn’t ...
MIAMI (AP) — A month before their fellow major leaguers will report for spring training, Aroldis Chapman, Yuli Gurriel and several other Cuban big leaguers assembled on an intimate field in Miami this ...
Team Cuba catcher Ivan Prieto defected to the United States during the World Baseball Classic. Prieto reportedly did not return home to Cuba on Monday following the team’s 14-2 loss to Team USA in the ...
MIAMI — Jose Vilela fled Cuba for the United States when he was 14 years old after spending six months in a concentration camp. Like many of his compatriots, he settled in Miami's Cuban neighborhood, ...
Ivan Prieto Gonzalez, Team Cuba’s bullpen catcher for the World Baseball Classic, defected in Miami on Monday, a day after his team lost to Team USA in the semifinals at loanDepot Park. Prieto did not ...
Not In My Backyard: Cuban-Americans protest the Cuban national baseball team playing at the World Baseball Classic in Miami last weekend. COMMENTARY Cuban baseball today seems a reminder of the island ...
The United States is permitting MLB players that are from Cuba to play for their home country in the World Baseball Classic in March. A press release from the Baseball Federation of Cuba on Saturday ...
Cuba took on the Netherlands in the first game of the 2023 World Baseball Classic. Cuba struck in the 2nd inning with an RBI double by Yadil Mujica. The Netherlands evened the score at 1 after an RBI ...
You don’t have to follow baseball to be riveted by the details of Yasiel Puig’s defection. His extraordinary journey from Cienfuegos, Cuba, to Los Angeles by way of Mexico is complete with smuggling, ...
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — Marloon Herrera was crying. Happy tears. With Cuba trailing in the fifth inning of its Little League World Series opener on Thursday, Marloon lined a two-run double to give ...
Cuba will play ball in the inaugural World Baseball Classic in March. But its presence required a diplomatic deal between the United States and Fidel Castro's Cuba, amid pressure from big-league ...