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Pretty interesting article about smuggling baseball players out of Cuba.
Yasiel Puig content.
http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/sto...-los-angeles-dodgers-yasiel-puig-journey-cuba
Yasiel Puig content.
http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/sto...-los-angeles-dodgers-yasiel-puig-journey-cuba
Just before dawn one day in late April 2012, four young Cubans stood on an otherwise deserted beach, peering hard into the Caribbean darkness. They were trying to escape their native country, and they were waiting for the boat that would take them away. Thirty minutes passed, then 60. Still no boat. Three men and one woman, the group had arrived at the designated spot close to the appointed hour: 3.a.m. By design, the rendezvous point was located on one of the most isolated coastal stretches in a country famous for nothing if not isolation -- so remote it could be reached only by foot....