31.   The Cuban national baseball team was delayed in arriving here, so the evening workout that was to be closed to everyone else was canceled.

32.   The Rangers took a plunge into the potentially lucrative Cuban baseball market yesterday by signing infielders Jorge Diaz and Osmani Garcia.

33.   There were the Kenyan distance runners, the Chinese divers, the Cuban baseball team.

34.   Two years later, Orlando fled after he had been suspended from Cuban baseball on charges that he had planned to defect like his brother.

35.   Unlike some noteworthy Cuban baseball players or his mother and two sisters, he says he has no plans to defect.

36.   President Fidel Castro and hundreds of screaming children greeted the victorious Cuban baseball team as it returned home Tuesday after beating the Orioles in Baltimore.

37.   A Cuban baseball coach skipped the flight home Tuesday after the game against the Baltimore Orioles and asked for asylum in the United States.

38.   A Cuban baseball coach skipped the flight home after the game against the Baltimore Orioles and asked for asylum in the United States.

39.   A sports agent says Cuban baseball player Andy Morales is seeking U.S. political asylum.

40.   All five were banned from Cuban baseball last year because authorities suspected they were planning to defect.