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Mar 2023
35m 53s

Cheers, Boos, and Protests: Cuban Baseba...

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Here in the United States, baseball is known as the national pastime. In Cuba, however, it’s something even bigger: baseball is part of their national identity. And there is no place where questions of Cuban identity and heritage take more center stage than Miami, the center of the Cuban diaspora in the United States. It’s been more than 60 years since the C ... Show More
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