Fidel Castro, the father of communist Cuba who led the country as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008, ... Castro’s love for baseball was also well known, ...

Let it be known here that Fidel Castro was never scouted by any major-league team, and is not known to have enjoyed the kind of success in baseball that could have brought a scout's attention to him.

A scoreboard featuring a massive photograph of Fidel Castro. Castro’s youngest son, Antonio, has a passion for baseball rather than the family business of politics.

Antonio "Tony" Castro, 39, is one of Fidel Castro's better-known sons due to his role as team doctor for the national baseball squad in the communist-run island, where the game is a sporting ...

The late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro loved baseball. And you may have heard that he was such a good player that years before the Cuban revolution, he tried out for the New York Yankees in Havana ...

Today, Antonio Castro, Fidel’s son and vice president of the International Baseball Federation (IBAF), has eased some of these restrictions in hopes that the move will keep Cuban talent in the ...

Cubans Talk Baseball, Not Castro, on the Street When Fidel Castro announced he was stepping down from the Cuban presidency, anthropologist Roberto Armengol hit the streets. Armengol found people ...

HAVANA — Fidel Castro’s rule of nearly five decades split many a Cuban family between exile and solidarity with the communist revolution — including his own. While brother Raul was his closes… ...

The end for minor-league baseball in Cuba came in July 1960. ... In the wake of Fidel Castro’s revolution, Sugar Kings owner Bobby Maduro tried to work with Castro, ...

A Noiser podcast production. Narrated by Paul McGann. Featuring Michael Bustamante, Anthony DePalma, Lillian Guerra, Orlando ...

During the 2006 World Baseball Classic, a controversial anti-Fidel Castro sign ignited tensions and drew protests from team Cuba. Your login session has expired. Please logout and login again.