21.   Just last month, left-handed Cuban national team pitcher Rolando Viera hopped aboard a plane out of Cuba.

22.   Omar Linares is the best-known member of the Cuban national team that will play the Baltimore Orioles on Sunday, and deservedly so.

23.   On Monday, he will sit alongside the Cuban team, and quietly cheer on the Americans.

24.   Osvaldo Fernandez and Livan Hernandez defected from the Cuban national team during the summer, but they did not take the routine route to professional baseball.

25.   Others have suggested that Hernandez learned to deal with pressure while pitching as a teen-ager in international tournaments for the Cuban national team.

26.   Since baseball games in the spring between the Baltimore Orioles and the Cuban national team, the administration has offered proposals for other sports events.

27.   Sources close to the Cuban team tell Newsweek that at least three players could ditch the team in Atlanta.

28.   That part, their welcome to America, was just what the old sour-faced coach of the Cuban national team had always told them about professional boxing.

29.   The Americans looked big compared to the Cuban team, several fans said.

30.   The Baltimore Orioles baseball team, for example, will be allowed to arrange exhibition games with the Cuban national team in both the United States and Cuba.