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The U.S. Major League Baseball (MLB) this week will give a clinic for Cuban children together with the Cuban Baseball Department, Cuban television reported.<\/p>\n
Stadiums in Havana and the cities of Matanzas and Pinar del R\u00edo will be the venues for the clinic, to be given November 16, 17 and 19 with the aim of \u201cintensifying the practice of the national sport which has thousands of followers on the island.\u201d<\/p>\n
The participants will be Cuban children aged between 8 and 12, but the news report did not reveal the possible MLB players who could take part in the clinic.<\/p>\n
Cuban baseball legends like L\u00e1zaro Junco, Pepe Estrada, Rolando Verde, L\u00e1zaro de la Torre, Omar Ajete and Giraldo Gonz\u00e1lez will participate in the practical classes.<\/p>\n
Ever since diplomatic relations were reestablished between Cuba and the United States \u2013 under the administration of former President Barack Obama \u2013 U.S. teams and athletes have participated in sports clinics, meets and friendly games.<\/p>\n
In December 2015, the MLB and its Players Association arrived in Cuba for an exchange and gave clinics in Havana\u2019s Latin American Stadium and Matanzas\u2019 V\u00edctoria de Gir\u00f3n.<\/p>\n
As part of that historical moment, the delegation was made up by Joe Torre, MLB director of sports operations, and Dave Winfield, MLBPA special consultant, in addition to Miguel Cabrera, Nelson Cruz and Clayton Kershaw. But the most transcendental part of the event was the presence of Cuban \u00e9migr\u00e9 baseball players Jos\u00e9 D. Abreu, Alexei Ram\u00edrez, Yasiel Puig and Brayan Pe\u00f1a.<\/p>\n
Retired Cuban stars Pedro L. Lazo, Pedro Medina, Rey Vicente Anglada and Orestes Kindel\u00e1n gave the baseball classes with them.<\/p>\n
Months later, Ra\u00fal Castro and Barack Obama \u2013 as part of the official visit by the U.S. president – witnessed in the Latin American Stadium the friendly game between the Cuban national team and the MLB Tampa Bay Rays on March 22, 2016.<\/p>\n
One year later, in March 2017, a category 14-18 champion team, made up by students from the Alexander Dawson School from the U.S. state of Colorado, and Cuban children aged 8 and 9 years held a sports meet in the province of Artemisa.<\/p>\n
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