51.   Cuban baseball star Orlando Hernandez, assured a reunion with family in the United States, wants the same deal for all of his follow defectors.

52.   Cuban baseball commissioner Carlos Rodriguez said the team would emphasize speed, not force.

53.   Cuban baseball fans seemed to care little that some of their athletes, even a baseball player, defected during the Pan American Games.

54.   Cuban officials claimed all five had been banned from Cuban baseball because they planned to leave the island or to help others flee.

55.   Cronin met Hernandez and other Cuban players while producing a documentary on Cuban baseball.

56.   Cuban baseball players have been granted asylum in number of Latin American countries, including Costa Rica, Venezuela, and the Dominican Republic.

57.   Cuban baseball star Andy Morales had not even been released from government detention when he was already being courted by major league teams, according to his agent.

58.   Days after they left, worried family members called Cubas, who has helped several Cuban baseball players defect including Livan Hernandez.

59.   Earlier this month, Cuban baseball player Francisco Santiesteban defected from the club while on a week-long road trip for a series of exhibition games in Colombia.

60.   Ending a nearly five-month impasse that erupted with the defection of a star Cuban baseball player, the Bahamas resumed deportations of Cuban refugees Monday.