SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- Star Cuban infielder Yulieski Gourriel and his younger brother slipped away from their hotel in the Dominican Republic early Monday in an apparent effort to launch ...

When the great Roberto Clemente was posthumously elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1973, shortly after his tragic death ...

The Gurriel family is baseball royalty in Cuba, largely because Lourdes Sr., Lourdes Jr. and Yuli’s success with the national team translated to success in the majors. Lourdes Gurriel Jr. has been an ...

The star Cuban ballplayer has never been easier to find in the United States and never harder to find in Cuba. “If you don’t test yourself with the best baseball in the world, how will you know if you ...

Baseball season is over in the United States, but it's just getting started in Cuba. It's the first season since Communist authorities lifted a 50-year-old ban on players' signing professional ...

MIAMI — The poster, the only prominent piece of memorabilia, hangs in the back of the shed next to the dusty old suitcase, a row of unused candles and a pile of VHS tapes, a few bearing the label ...

Team Canada defeated Team Cuba by a final score of 7-2 on Wednesday in the World Baseball Classic. With a 3-1 record in the first round, Canada is advancing to the WBC quarterfinals for the first time ...

A photo of a sunglasses-clad President Barack Obama casually chatting up then-Cuban President Raúl Castro at a 2016 baseball game resurfaced on social media after the U.S. indicted Castro on May 20.

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba's Baseball Federation announced on Tuesday a first list of players authorized to sign contracts directly with Major League Baseball organizations, moving Cuban-U.S. cooperation ...