From Cuba, With a Dream of the Majors
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Geikel Conyedo, a catcher at Perth Amboy High School, has overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles on his journey to New Jersey from Cuba.
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When the San Francisco Giants play baseball, slugger Barry Bonds and the other players are far from the only ones thinking about hitting home runs.
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The Mets appreciate RamÃ³n CastroÂs character and jovial personality, but they are more interested in whether he can be their backup catcher in the postseason.
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CASILDA, Cuba -- Tiny flames jump and sputter in the night here, suspended above the roadbed as if held by an invisible wand.
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He points to one moment, one conversation with his pal from Cuba. Jose Contreras was struggling, and his friend Orlando Hernandez wanted to know what had happened to the pitcher who triggered an auction between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox before ever slipping on a major league uniform.
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Vladimir Guerrero figured someone from his baseball-crazed country would be chosen as the American League&#39;s Most Valuable Player.
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MICHAEL Vaughan last night dreamed of capping a spectacularly successful summer for England with an appearance in the final of the ICC Champions Trophy.
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Get in the game with a visit to these intimate ballparks.
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With Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon perched on the mound with two outs in the ninth, poised to win his first World Series, on the cusp of completing a dream he and his brothers had rehearsed throughout their childhood on the sandlots of rural Louisiana, the inevitable happened.
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When Carlos Beltran was traded to the Houston Astros, he already was considered among baseball's top all-around players, one of those rare breeds who can hit, run and play great defense.
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Itâs one of the tried-and-true realities of life in the Metsâ clubhouse. Looking for JosÃ© Reyes? Just find the loudest shirt, and there he is.
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Baseballâs mass migration to Arizona for spring training is a development that would have been someoneâs spring fantasy a couple of decades ago.
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Still the main challenger to the United States in the Pan American Games medals race, Cuba suddenly has some doubts about one of its strongest sports.
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&quot;This is a baseball man&#39;s dream,&quot; Minaya said at a news conference, where he was introduced by the team&#39;s principal owner, Fred Wilpon.
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For years, Nilder Santos and his family had been hoping to win the most prized lottery in Cuba. But each time it was held, the 25-year-old dancer and his parents were heartbroken when their names didn't appear on the list of the lucky ones allowed to leave the poverty of their communist nation to chase the American dream.
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CHICAGO -- The United States would play its first-ever World Cup qualifier at Cuba on Sept. 6 if both nations advance to the semifinals of the North and Central American and Caribbean region.
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Scenes from the extraordinary life of Fidel Castro, the revolutionary president who weathered the 1962 missile crisis, the US embargo, the fall of the Berlin Wall and economic woe to lead a communist Cuba for nearly five decades