At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece the Cuban national team won the Gold Medal, defeating Australia in the final by a score of 6-2. Besides stars Yulieski Gourriel, Frederich Cepeda, Pedro Lazo and Ariel Pestano, Cuba also featured a young shortstop from Pinar del Rio.

A much-delayed announcement of the Cuban roster for an upcoming “friendly” series with Team Nicaragua when finally released this past weekend has now provided one of the most intriguing and refreshing Cuban squads of recent memory.

Cuba’s National Series finals provided a few mild surprises, but none bigger than the emergence of Roger Machado at the top of the island’s current list of managerial success stories.

Guerra, DR-The Junior National Team scored twice in the top of the eighth inning only to see the Seattle Mariners Dominican prospects respond with two runs of their own in the bottom of the inning as both teams played to a 6-6 tie.

Former Boston Red Sox skipper and two-time World Series champion among several award-winning players and coaches highlighting the event

DURHAM, N.C. — USA Baseball announced Wednesday that it will host the second annual Prospect Classic in late June and early July across the Triangle area of North Carolina. The event showcases USA Baseball’s Collegiate and 18U National Teams, and presents fans and members of the baseball community with a one-of-a-kind opportunity to see the top prospects for upcoming MLB First-Year Player Drafts on the field at the same time.

Ciego de Avila’s 20-0 “super knockout” thrashing of Granma in last night’s Oriental League opening semifinals contest was hardly very gripping or even faintly artistic. But it certainly was a game that put several dents in the professional baseball record books.

Major League Baseball (MLB), the Players Trust and State Farm® are teaming up with Habitat for Humanity International in an effort to build new homes with families in Joplin, Missouri and Tuscaloosa, Alabama, which were two of the communities devastated by the tornadoes in April and May of 2011. Nine homes will be built in these communities – five in Joplin; four in Tuscaloosa, with two of them to be framed near Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City in the backdrop of the 83rd MLB All-Star Game.

You have to hand it to Victor Mesa – the legitimate headline grabber of this year’s National Series baseball season. This truly has been “The Year of Matanzas” and “The Year of Victor Mesa.”

OTTAWA-Baseball Canada is pleased to announce the names of 20 players that will travel to Cuba June 7th-14th to participate in the Cuban ‘Triangle’ Series.