ALTOONA, Pa. — Heriberto Suarez Pereda arrived in the suite atop Peoples Natural Gas Field and immediately began making notes inside his official game program.
Wearing a Cuban baseball cap and windbreaker, he combed the rosters of the Class AA Altoona Curve and Richmond Flying Squirrels and wrote “5” on the Altoona page and “7” on Richmond’s.
Mr. Suarez, commissioner of the Cuban baseball federation and a guest of the Curve for Sunday’s matinee, was understandably curious about the number of players from Latin America. The top three batters in the Curve lineup hailed from the Dominican Republic, Colombia and Venezuela, and it wasn’t lost on Mr.