Champ Kind Posted July 19, 2015 Share Posted July 19, 2015 Restoring full diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States could lead to Major League Baseball pre-season games on the Communist island by next year and a safer pipeline for Cuban talent. Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred said exhibition games in Cuba ahead of next April's start of the 2016 season "would be my best guess, based on the state of the conversations with the government," according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. As a trade embargo and diplomatic shutdown since the 1960s between Cuba and the United States nears an end, US officials hope to use baseball to make inroads much the same way US officials used table tennis to bridge cultrual gaps with China in the 1970s. View the full article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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