HAVANA • At the beginning of a historic press conference in the venerable Hotel Nacional de Cuba, the chief for the Major League Baseball Players Association, Tony Clark, asked the gathered group of more than 100 a question, in Spanish.
“La pelota es vida,” he said, smiling. “Si or no?”
The crowd, filled with local media and officials, shouted back: “Si.”
Baseball is life. Of course.
Now we’ll see if it’s a bridge.
Clark and Major League Baseball executive Joe Torre formally began a three-day goodwill tour of Cuba with Tuesday’s press conference.