St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Dec 16, 2015
MLB, Cuba building a bridge with baseball
St. Louis Cardinals catcher Brayan Pena, second from left, introduces union chief Tony Clark to his 84-year-old grandmother Rosa Hernandez at Havana's Hotel Nationale on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015. Pena had not seen many of his family members in 17 years.MLB superstars return to CubaHAVANA • 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.