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- <text id=89TT0770>
- <title>
- Mar. 20, 1989: Fielding Fidel
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Mar. 20, 1989 Solving The Mysteries Of Heredity
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 92
- Fielding Fidel
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By Howard G. Chua-Eoan
- </p>
- <p> "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!" If the Senators had
- signed him, they might still be on top.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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