Cuba's best baseball player sits on a sofa at home, talking about his dreams to play MLB. He is wearing workout clothes, but it is unclear whether he's heading to the gym or has just returned.

Cuban baseball player Victor Victor Mesa recently orchestrated a heartfelt birthday surprise for his wife, the talented ...

Baseball is full of stories of Cuban players who left the island by boat for fame and fortune in the major leagues. It is often portrayed as an easy choice.

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Cuban athlete Erick Hernández made headlines this Saturday by setting a new world record for ball control using a Baseball ...

Cuba might end up more like Mexico, Venezuela or Puerto Rico, a reliable producer of Latin baseball talent but limited by its weaker baseball infrastructure. Pinar holds on to win 7-4.

The prestigious Cuba National Baseball Series, which has been the launch-pad for many stellar international sports careers, is available to a global audience for the first time.

MLB and Cuba are closer than at any time since the 1959 revolution, as evidenced by a goodwill tour last week in which big leaguers, including Cuban defectors, gave clinics to Cuban youth.

In baseball-mad Cuba, however, the bats attracted attention and he was asked to make more, including bats that could be used in games. The maple bats quickly grew in popularity among Cuban players.

Melba Rosa Bacallao, mother of Cuban baseball player Yasmany Tomas, holds a book with a picture of her son in Havana, Cuba, on March 3, 2015. (AP / Desmond Boylan) Reddit Share ...

Major League Baseball and the Cuban Baseball Federation lack an agreement on player transfers because of the U.S. trade embargo of Cuba. This leads Cubans with big-league dreams to defect.