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10 surprising things discovered from Team USA baseball’s visit to Cuba last month

August 15, 2018

Walter Villa, Miami Herald

St. Thomas University baseball coach Jorge Perez traveled to his ancestral home of Cuba for the first time last month, and his trip filled him with a number of emotions — and sadness was chief among those feelings.
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