Cuba

I try. I really do. But whenever I attempt to embrace my husband Peter’s Cuban culture, I always screw up.

I left Cuba in 1949, when I was 11 years old. Back then, I didn't understand why my mother sent me away. I still don't.

Stand-out athlete Yasiel Puig defected from Cuba to play baseball in the U.S., but he relied on a money-hungry Mexican cartel network to do it. How will baseball deal with dangerous stories like this as the number of foreign players continues to grow?

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