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Francona reflects on bond shared with dad over baseball

CLEVELAND -- Terry Francona could not wait to light the cigars with his dad. While in Cuba with Team USA during his college days, Francona purchased the smokes and snuck them back into the Unites States in a pair of his socks.

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"I probably didn't tell him that part," Francona says now with a laugh.

When Terry presented the Cuban cigar to his dad, though, Tito Francona had a different idea.

"I gave it to him and I was all proud, because it was like $12 or something," the Indians manager recalled.