Thursday, May 31, 2007
Cuban Leader Fidel Castro was an excellent baseball player in his youth. He has forced all of his many children to learn a particular sport intensively. He wouldn't allow any of them to play baseball (so as not to diminish his achievements) but has given them free choice of all other sports. Although generally pleased with his children's choices, including soccer, boxing and wrestling, he was reportedly very upset when one son chose bowling, and had to be hospitalized when told that his son Angel had decided he wanted to be a pro bass fisherman.
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That Castro was a good baseball player certainly is an unfounded rumor. Castro had open tryout with a major league team (I think it was the Indians) and he didn't come close to making the team. MLB clubs have historically had these open tryouts in their cities as a publicity stunt. Needless to say none of these guys off the street ever amount to anything. There is no documentation anywhere that shows that he had any special talent for the game. It's just part of the fictitious legend that surrounds the humorless, murdering bastard.
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