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Article: U.S. PLAYS BALL WITH CUBANS CRITICS SAY ORIOLES' VISIT CHEAP PUBLICITY FOR CASTRO.(Sports)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- March 27, 1999
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Anticipation's been building in Cuba all week: the Yankees are coming.
Well, not the Yankees exactly.
Rather, the Baltimore Orioles will become the first Major League Baseball team to stand on a Havana diamond in 40 years when they face off tomorrow against a 27-man squad of Cuban all-stars.
Coincidentally, hours later, dozens of U.S. musicians, including Jimmy Buffett and the Atlanta-based Indigo Girls, will stage a free invitation-only concert at the Karl Marx theater, also in Havana.
Baseball diplomacy. Pop music diplomacy. There seems to be all kinds of diplomacy going on this weekend between the United States and its communist ...