This week a baseball trainer and a sports agent in Florida pleaded not guilty in US federal court to charges linked to the smuggling of top Cuban baseball talent out of the island nation and into the US. Julio Estrada, owner of an athletic training business in Miami, who was arrested Friday, pleaded not guilty … Read more
On Tuesday night, ComCast SportsNet Original Production will air a new documentary profiling Cuban-born and Major League Baseball player Jose Abreu’s return to Cuba as a part of MLB’s first goodwill trip to the island since 1999. “Going Home: Jose Abreu” is a 30-minute documentary that records the Chicago White Sox first baseman’s trip back to Cuba since … Read more
By the Cuba Journal staff When it comes to sports in Cuba, baseball is king. But just what kind of impact the country’s nascent diplomatic ties with the US will mean for its baseball players and the country’s relationship with Major League Baseball has been murky: until now, according to SB Nation. And now, Major … Read more
