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Tommy Lasorda recalls his days in Cuba

Tommy Lasorda has seen plenty of change in Cuba. He was playing baseball on the island when Fulgencio Batista overthrew Carlos Prio in 1952 and again when Fidel Castro overthrew the Battista government in 1959.

"When Castro took over the city on the first of January, me, Art Fowler and Bob Allison came out of a New Year's party with our wives, and it was 3:30 in the morning and I look up...

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