You don’t have to follow baseball to be riveted by the details of Yasiel Puig’s defection. His extraordinary journey from Cienfuegos, Cuba, to Los Angeles by way of Mexico is complete with smuggling, ...

CHICAGO — Detroit Tigers infielder Andy Ibáñez walked down the stairs of the team plane Aug. 18 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, for the MLB Little League Classic. He was immediately greeted by Little ...

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — Marloon Herrera was crying. Happy tears. With Cuba trailing in the fifth inning of its Little League World Series opener on Thursday, Marloon lined a two-run double to give ...

SAN DIEGO - As Juana Hernandez walked through the gates at Petco Park on Monday night, she immediately began to dance to the Caribbean beats of her youth. Shaking her hips and rotating her shoulders ...

MIAMI (AP) — A month before their fellow major leaguers will report for spring training, Aroldis Chapman, Yuli Gurriel and several other Cuban big leaguers assembled on an intimate field in Miami this ...

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- Star Cuban infielder Yulieski Gourriel and his younger brother slipped away from their hotel in the Dominican Republic early Monday in an apparent effort to launch ...

The Atlanta Braves are keeping themselves busy trying to strengthen the organization with one international signing that flew ...

Trailblazer Moreno joined by three others in Cuba's main league Cuba's male-dominated sports becoming more inclusive Gender unimportant, says baseball player of female umpire HAVANA, May 31 (Reuters) ...

HAVANA (AP) — Cuba’s unprecedented effort to stop a devastating baseball talent drain doesn’t seem to be working, with a string of stars leaving for the major leagues in the year since the government ...

MIAMI -- A month before their fellow major leaguers will report for spring training, Aroldis Chapman, Yuli Gurriel and several other Cuban big leaguers assembled on an intimate field in Miami this ...

Officials with Major League Baseball and the Cuban Baseball Federation said Wednesday they had reached a deal that would allow Cuban citizens to play in the United States and return home in the ...