After playing the first two rounds of the tournament in Taiwan and Japan, Cuba advanced to the World Baseball Classic semifinals, which along with the championship game are being held at Miami’s ...

There is no pitcher who compares to the success of Pedro Lazo, Cuba’s current pitching coach and living legend. Yoan Moncada and Luis Robert are not Omar Linares or Yuli Gurriel. But that doesn’t ...

Cuban eight-year-old Kevin Kindelan, a hot-handed shortstop for a Central Havana junior league baseball team, and his teammate and first baseman Leoni Venego, seven, both dream of stardom. Kindelan ...

MIAMI — Jose Vilela fled Cuba for the United States when he was 14 years old after spending six months in a concentration camp. Like many of his compatriots, he settled in Miami's Cuban neighborhood, ...

Team Cuba catcher Ivan Prieto defected to the United States during the World Baseball Classic. Prieto reportedly did not return home to Cuba on Monday following the team’s 14-2 loss to Team USA in the ...

Cuban baseball player César Prieto, a highly touted 22-year-old infielder, ditched the Cuban national team Wednesday and defected to the United States. Prieto and his then-teammates arrived in Florida ...

The United States is permitting MLB players that are from Cuba to play for their home country in the World Baseball Classic in March. A press release from the Baseball Federation of Cuba on Saturday ...

Not In My Backyard: Cuban-Americans protest the Cuban national baseball team playing at the World Baseball Classic in Miami last weekend. COMMENTARY Cuban baseball today seems a reminder of the island ...

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — Marloon Herrera was crying. Happy tears. With Cuba trailing in the fifth inning of its Little League World Series opener on Thursday, Marloon lined a two-run double to give ...

You don’t have to follow baseball to be riveted by the details of Yasiel Puig’s defection. His extraordinary journey from Cienfuegos, Cuba, to Los Angeles by way of Mexico is complete with smuggling, ...

Cuba will play ball in the inaugural World Baseball Classic in March. But its presence required a diplomatic deal between the United States and Fidel Castro's Cuba, amid pressure from big-league ...