MIAMI — Until Sunday, the Cuban national baseball team had not played here since Fidel Castro rose to power in 1959. The island’s signature team has played in the United States in the decades ...

2023 World Baseball Classic. ... In March of 2020, Romero released his Spanish-language book chronicling the migration of Cuban baseball players from 1960 to 2018.

Cuban Americans protest the Cuba national baseball team playing at the World Baseball Classic game, Sunday, March 19, 2023, in Miami. Cuba faces U.S. in a quarterfinal game. Credit: AP/Marta Lavandier ...

Cuban baseball player Iván Prieto González defected from his home country when he didn't board the team flight to Havana on Monday, according to the Miami Herald's Jorge Ebro.

In 2018, M.L.B. and the Cuban Baseball Federation struck a deal to ease the path for players to compete in the United States without defecting — but the Trump administration later nixed it ...

A handful of Major League Baseball players will join Cuba's team for the first time in the upcoming World Baseball Classic tournament, an unprecedented event, the sport's Cuban Federation said on ...

MIAMI – The Cuban flags are out and Little Havana, the heart of the Cuban exile community, is ready to receive its Cuban National baseball team.. It marks the first time since 2006 that the team ...

TOKYO — Former major leaguer Yoenis Céspedes has left the Cuban team at the World Baseball Classic for unspecified personal reasons. The Cuban Baseball Federation, in a statement from … ...

In the first year that Cuban pros are allowed to play for their home country, the team made the WBC semifinals for the first time since 2006. But here's why only a few chose to be on the roster.

Cuban Americans protest the Cuba national baseball team playing at the World Baseball Classic game, Sunday, March 19, 2023, in Miami. Cuba faces U.S. in a quarterfinal game.