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Revisionist history: How Castro's resignation impacts on baseball

March 3, 2008

In this 2002 article from Reason.com, we learn how the decision by the communist dictator to step down might open the door for baseball scholarship. According to the piece by Matt Welch, Cuban national Severo Nieto basically invented Cuban baseball research in 1955 when he co-authored the country’s first-ever baseball encyclopedia, laboriously reconstructing the statistical […]

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