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Cuba invited to play in 2009 WBC
HAVANA (AP) Cuba confirmed Tuesday it has received an invitation to play in the 2009 World Baseball Classic, but wouldn't say whether it plans to participate. Jose Ramon Fernandez, a Cuban vice president and head of the island's Olympic Committee, said that officials received an invitation from Major League Baseball to compete in the second installment of the international tournament. "We at the Cuban Olympic Committee have officially received the invitation for the second World Baseball Classic," Fernandez said. He would not say when the invitation arrived, nor respond to further questions.

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Re: Cuba invited to play in 2009 WBC
[ Author: Guest: puddin head | Posted: Nov 20, 2007 2:12 PM ]

If Cuba continues to refuse to include Cuban refugees with MLB and NPB experience onto their team, I'd like to see a team of professionals of Cuban descent play in the WBC as a separate team. That's a significant group of guys who got left out of the last WBC.

When Cuba faced Japan in the last WBC final, all the Cubans who now live in the Miami area were rooting hard for Japan. They did not want Castro to boast a winner.
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