SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Nolan Arenado wasn’t sure what he would find if he went to Cuba.
“I’ve always wanted to go, you know?” the Rockies’ star third baseman said. “It was more than I ever imagined.”
He saw the country where his father lived as a child. He played baseball on city streets, just like his father had more than 50 years ago. He heard stories about the infamous prison where his grandfather was held as a political prisoner. He marveled at the centuries-old Spanish architecture, the gorgeous beaches and the aquamarine Caribbean Sea. But he became dispirited at the ramshackle condition of villages in the country.