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The importance of Cuban baseball and political policies of Communist Cuba go hand in hand with each other. No activity or business has been more affected by the embargo the United States enforces on Cuba than the thousands of Cuban baseball players who have been forced to play for national pride and sacrifice the opportunity to make millions of dollars all in the name of Castro and the Revolution. It is interesting to view the emphasis both the Communist party and the people of Cuba have placed on the game. Baseball has become the ultimate source of Nationalism and pride for the island of Cuba, yet the Castro regime has severely crippled the game over the past four decades of dictatorship. One is left to wonder what might have been for the countless number of great ball players whose skills and abilities have gone unnoticed outside of Cuba due to the imprisonment of their talent.
Baseball in Cuba, both professional and amateur, has a long history dating back to the 1860Õs when......

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