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Author: | JazzboCR [ Sun Aug 14, 2011 1:20 pm ] |
Post subject: | 100 years of Cuban baseball--in one man |
And quite a remarkable man at that. Here's Conrado Marrero at age 100--blind, wheel-chair-bound but still enjoying cigars, listening to games and being sharp as a whip: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/sport ... -past.html The author runs a Website on baseball in Cuba: http://www.baseballdecuba.com << The Chrome/Comodo browser offers to translate into English and does it well Incidentally, ponder the alternate future of Latin America if Fidel had become a pitcher for the Yankees. Pure urban myth as this excellent Snopes.com article shows but fascinating to think about: http://www.snopes.com/sports/baseball/castro.asp |
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