Sixty years after baseball fan Fidel Castro took power, a new agreement may open the big leagues to Cuban players.
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Cuba Looks Ahead But Not Forward
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Six decades under the Castro brothers’ rule has left Cuba an economic backwater. A forthcoming regime promises little better.
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A Humiliating Grip-And-Grin
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Obama’s Cuba visit was an ego trip for the legacy-minded president. The images were probably not what he intended.
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Ending The Cuban Test Drive
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We have given our policy of isolating Cuba a half-century test drive. It never got us where we wanted to go.
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Time To Play Ball With Cuban Athletes
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A Cuban policy change is good for organized baseball everywhere, except in the country that calls the sport its national pastime.
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What Egypt Tells Us About Cuba
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In the days after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, papers around the world filled their front pages and their …
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Pounding the Cuban Nail
When it comes to dealing with Cuba, six decades of economic estrangement have left America with only one tool in its kit.
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