1.   And if Cuban baseball players keep defecting, it may soon make no sense at all.

2.   Andy Morales, a standout with the Cuban national baseball team, has succeeded in his second attempt to flee Cuba for the United States.

3.   Another highly touted teen-age Cuban baseball player defected from the national junior team in Illinois on Sunday, joining catcher Yalian Serrano, who defected nine days ago.

4.   Both boys rose quickly in the Cuban baseball world, becoming aces on the Cuban national team.

5.   Breaking a long tradition, the Clinton administration forcibly repatriated Wednesday a prominent Cuban baseball player who had tried to slip into the United States by sea.

6.   But last year Orlando Hernandez was expelled from the national team and suspended for life from Cuban baseball.

7.   By now, Cuban baseball players defecting is commonplace.

8.   Cuban baseball players at baseball practice at the National Sports City complex in Havana.

9.   Cubas is so well-known by now to Cuban baseball officials that he is less inclined to be seen around the Cuban team.

10.   Cuban baseball dominating, again.