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| Oct. 17, 2014 Siegs 4 posts | Playin in Cuba? Has anyone ever played softball in Cuba? |
| Oct. 17, 2014 SSUSA Staff 3483 posts | SSUSA, through its affiliate International Sports Holidays, has sponsored two softball tours to Cuba in recent years ... The experience, according to those who traveled, was an outstanding cultural and Sports Ambassador opportunity ... |
| Oct. 17, 2014 J R 251 posts | I was on the 2010 trip to Cuba.The children stole our hearts they played baseball everywhere.No soccer just baseball..Great experience.We attended a major league game..Two of players are now in the U S Chapman,and Cespedes.Would gladly do it again. |
| Oct. 17, 2014 Fred S Men's 85 297 posts | Our league here in Ma has been playing a home and home series with some Cuban teams for last 5 or 5 yrs. They come up in Aug and we go down there in November. In fact the Cape Code Classic let them play in their tournament in Sep. |
| Oct. 17, 2014 Siegs 4 posts | And they won their division!! |
| Oct. 17, 2014 Siegs 4 posts | I'm going in November and again in February. We are just good average softball players, no majors or AAA, but decent enough senior slow pitch players. Always looking for more guys 55+ to join in. |
| Oct. 17, 2014 DoubleL10 Men's 70 907 posts | Siegs, do you guys fly to Cuba thru Canada or Mexico? |
| Oct. 18, 2014 Siegs 4 posts | WE go legit. Through the states (from Miami) with proper licensing and visas through my league and company. |
| Jan. 21, 2015 neil Men's 50 5 posts | siegs I would love to go to cuba in feb // I am 55 // 56 in march my email is srnw42@aol.com |
| Jan. 24, 2015 grayhitter59 Men's 60 345 posts | Siegs I was born in Cuba in 1959 and came over in 1962, would love to go and play there. Are you going this year if so can you send me, I am interested in going. manny@generatorcontainer.com or if you like to call me the # is 305-989-5236 Thank You |
| Jan. 25, 2015 Omar Khayyam 1357 posts | Bunch of guys from northern California went over about 4 or 5 years ago. They were mostly in their 60s and 70s. They had a blast touring and seeing all the old cars. They donated a lot of equipment they had collected (gloves, shoes, batting gloves, etc.) to the Cubans. The highlight was supposed to be playing another senior ball club. Problem #1: the Cuban team wasn't all that senior! Had some guys who looked to be in their 20s, 30s. Problem #2: despite the translator assuring them that he had carefully explained the rules, late in the game a Cuban came home after rounding third and ran right over the catcher who was standing on home plate, not expecting to get steamrolled! Catcher was in his 70s and had to have medical treatment for awhile once he returned to the States. Took some of the shine off of the trip. This team also flew directly from the US. I think the game was under the banner of some kind of good will "ambassadorship" and there wasn't much red tape. Some guys weren't interested in going because of the corrupt dictatorship and prisons stuffed with political prisoners. I had a chance to go with a college-sponsored "educational" tour a few years ago but turned it down because Castro had just cracked down and imprisoned many public and college LIBRARIANS! Why? Because they had allowed the wrong political books in their libraries. I thought it was hypocritical for the college to continue its tour effort since the crackdown was part of an ongoing effort to stifle freedom as several academics were also imprisoned in that purge. |
