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Article: JACKIE'S ROUGH BEGINNING : BEFORE DODGERS CAME GRUELING SUMMER IN CUBA.(Sports)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- February 16, 1997
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Byline: Cesar Brioso Miami Herald
On most nights, portable fans could not stir the warm Caribbean air enough to make sleep come easily.
Rusty springs poked through the thick blankets serving as his mattress, an ancient elevator clanked and rumbled within a shaft down the hall, and with darkness as a cover, the roaches scampered across his room at will.
Even daybreak failed to shine much light on the hotel's cheerless atmosphere, rife with the stale odor of cigars.
The foreign din of Spanish filled a dreary lobby, and the local, spicy cuisine of the restaurant set his stomach ablaze.
Fifty years ago this month, with a ...