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Article: BASEBALL NOTES Brother gives his advice Take U.S. visa offer, Livan Hernandez says
- Article from:
- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- January 4, 1998
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Florida Marlins pitcher Livan Hernandez says his half-brother,
Cuban defector Orlando Hernandez, should leave the Bahamas and
accept a special visa offered to him by the United States.
"What he should do is come to the United States and map out his
future from here," said Livan Hernandez, the most valuable player in
the 1997 World Series.
The State Department offered a special visa for Orlando Hernandez,
also a former star pitcher known in Cuba as "El Duque," his
common-law wife and another defector because they were persecuted
after Livan Hernandez left the communist island in 1995.
Livan Hernandez said the visa was issued "because of who I am and
because of my accomplishments in this ...