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Posted By: jay behrens

Not sure if anyone else saw this, but figured it would be of interest to our contigent of Cuban fans.

U.S. Baseball Game Halted by Authorities
Los Angeles Times
June 23, 2005

Cuban authorities took away baseball bats, balls and gloves from Cuban youths to keep them from playing with U.S. officials in Havana, the State Department said.

When the Americans, who one official said were chiefly Marines who guard the U.S. interests section in Havana, tried to use their own equipment to play, the authorities stopped the youths from entering the field.

"This is a normal and a good thing, I think, to have interactions with locals, to help support democracy and human rights activists," State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said. "The Cuban government didn't think so, however."

My place is full of valuable, worthless junk.