Cuban government lifts 52-year professional sport ban - ABC Online

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Cuban government lifts 52-year professional sport ban ABC Online Professional sport returns to Cuba for the first time in more than 50 years on Saturday (AEDT) when the first pitch is thrown in the communist island's national baseball league, part of a government bid to halt the flow of sporting defectors overseas. Baseball: Professional sport returns to Cuba

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