HAVANA • With a swarm of young Cuban players around him, catcher Brayan Pena tugged a slender man wearing a bright red shirt into the midst and pointed toward him.
This, Pena said, this was the man who taught him to catch.
“I wanted to be a wrestler,” Pena said with a smile.
With the uncle who played shortstop for one of Havana’s most successful teams, an idol who caught for one of the teams, and his teacher all beside him, Pena participated in the first of two youth clinics Major League Baseball is hosting this week as part of its goodwill tour to Cuba.