Baseball Is Eyed by Congress Over Plan To Let Cuba
Play

By MEGHAN CLYNE - Staff Reporter of the Sun
December 12, 2005


WASHINGTON - Baseball is in Congress's crosshairs
again - and this time it's not performance-enhancing
drugs, but Communist Cuba's participation in an
upcoming international tournament sponsored by Major
League Baseball that is under fire from Capitol Hill.

Cuban-American leaders in Congress are urging the
league's commissioner, Allan "Bud" Selig, to rescind
an invitation to the Castro dictatorship to field a
team for the league's inaugural World Baseball
Classic. The members of Congress want instead to allow
free Cubans to represent the island nation. The Bush
administration, too, is being pressed to deny the
league's application for a license that would permit
Cuba - a State Department-identified state sponsor of
terrorism, subject to a Treasury embargo - to
participate in the tournament.


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