Cuba v.2.0 [Archive] - Baseball Fever

bhss89

03-03-2006, 05:52 PM

Fidel Castro was once a pitcher in the Senators farm system. If he'd improved and made the big club, who knows how the world may have been changed?

Ain't baseball cool . . . ? I mean, if you're a communist, that is . . .

Bob Hannah

03-03-2006, 10:12 PM

Fidel Castro was once a pitcher in the Senators farm system. If he'd improved and made the big club, who knows how the world may have been changed?

Ain't baseball cool . . . ? I mean, if you're a communist, that is . . .
I believe Castro had a tryout with the Senator's in the late '40s but wasn't picked up by the team.

Bob Hannah

03-04-2006, 06:40 AM

I believe Castro had a tryout with the Senator's in the late '40s but wasn't picked up by the team.
Even that he had a tryout may be false.

http://www.snopes.com/sports/baseball/castro.asp

http://www.washington-baseball.com/history.htm

http://www.trivia-library.com/c/biography-of-famous-cuban-leader-fidel-castro-part-5.htm

:lookitup (http://observer.guardian.co.uk/sport/story/0,,1718405,00.html)

bhss89

03-04-2006, 06:50 AM

Even that he had a tryout may be false.

http://www.snopes.com/sports/baseball/castro.asp

http://www.washington-baseball.com/history.htm

http://www.trivia-library.com/c/biography-of-famous-cuban-leader-fidel-castro-part-5.htm

:lookitup (http://observer.guardian.co.uk/sport/story/0,,1718405,00.html)

Great find Bob, and certainly worth looking into to learn more. At any rate, I'm certainly not a Castro fan, but I think it's cool that he has such a passion for the game. He's really fired up about the WBC, whereas I'm not certain our "Commander in Chief" even knows it's going on.