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Brooklyn Dodgers in Cuba (Images of Baseball)

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The Brooklyn Dodgers held spring training in Havana in 1947 so Jackie Robinson may just practice safely. Yet that used to be hardly the start: the Bums played in Cuba over 60 seasons, from 1900 to 1959. Ballplayers drank hard with Hemingway. A few found themselves in Cuban jails. Pitcher Van Lingle Mungo, barricaded within the Hotel Nacional with two women, fended off an indignant husband (and his machete). Leo Durocher were given into a brawl with an umpire, after Lippy’s translator as it should be cursed him in Spanish. Vin Scully watched machine gun–toting barbudas enter the room. An outfielder leaped into the stands, with a loaded gun, to chase a fan. A number of players encountered Castro, who once walked onto the sphere in his fatigues, patted his pistol, and said to Lefty Locklin, “Tonight, we win.”

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