Penn State baseball to be first US team to play a Cuban professional team

On February 7, 1962, amid a communist revolution in Cuba led by Fidel Castro, U.S. President John F. Kennedy imposed a complete economic embargo on Cuba that ended all travel between the United States and Cuba and cut off all economic ties between ...

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