Arrival of Tampa Bay Rays,the first MLB club to visit Cuba in two decades, heralds flood of interest in a baseball scene that is gifted but impoverishedFidel Castro once famously extolled Cuban baseball players to be the standards bearers of the revolution, or “playing for the love of people,not money.
But when Barack Obama winds up his trip to Havana by attending a game between the Cuban national team and Tampa Bay Rays, he will see sport on the island all but alert to be engulfed by a tsunami of Major League dollars.
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Source: theguardian.com