61.   Exiled leaders objected Tuesday, saying the players were banned from Cuban baseball last year because Cuban authorities suspected they were planning to defect.

62.   Four Cuban baseball players and a coach who defected from the communist island are rescued at sea and taken to a small Bahamian island.

63.   Four more Cuban national baseball team members have defected in Mexico, a week after Cuba clamped down on those it said were helping its athletes defect.

64.   Four prominent Cuban baseball players and a coach reached the Bahamas last month on a raft, seeking asylum in third countries.

65.   He especially attacked the defections of three members of the Cuban baseball team before the games started.

66.   He also complained about reports of the defection this month of Cuban baseball star Orlando Hernandez, who had been suspended from baseball here for contacts with foreign scouts.

67.   He was suspended from Cuban baseball this season because government officials suspected he wanted to defect.

68.   In March, four Cuban baseball players and a coach reached the Bahamas on a raft.

69.   Joe Cubas, an agent who has helped several Cuban baseball players flee the island, said the five were spotted by a Bahamian fishing boat on Ragged Island.

70.   Missing Cuban baseball players may be in the Dominican Republic.