How some Cuban players make it to Major League Baseball
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Feb. 26 -- Cuban diplomats travel to Washington on Friday for the latest round of normalization talks with U.S. officials - one topic that may not be high on the agenda is baseball. But in a week where the Boston Red Sox spent $60M dollars on a 19-year-old Cuban baseball player, the business of bringing young Cubans to play ball in the U.S. continues to thrive, as Willem Marx reports.
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4 minutes
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Geography
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Alexander Street
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