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- PEOPLE, Page 92Fielding Fidel
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- By Howard G. Chua-Eoan
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- "If we'd known he wanted to be a dictator, we'd have made
- him an umpire," says an observer from Fidel Castro's baseball
- days. The Cuban leader's early career aspirations are featured
- in "Legends of Minor League Baseball," a newly released deck of
- cards. A promising young pitcher, Castro tried out with the now
- defunct Washington Senators. But he was never signed. After the
- revolution, he'd throw occasionally for a Cuban army team during
- exhibition season. The card notes: "In those games, he was
- always clobbered unmercifully but was never removed -- after
- all, what manager would dare yank Fidel!" Ifthe Senators had
- signed him, they might still be on top.
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