The Trump administration blocked Major League Baseball from signing players directly from Cuba to play professionally in the U.S., nullifying a historic deal the league struck in December with the ...

CHICAGO — Detroit Tigers infielder Andy Ibáñez walked down the stairs of the team plane Aug. 18 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, for the MLB Little League Classic. He was immediately greeted by Little ...

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — Marloon Herrera was crying. Happy tears. With Cuba trailing in the fifth inning of its Little League World Series opener on Thursday, Marloon lined a two-run double to give ...

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- Star Cuban infielder Yulieski Gourriel and his younger brother slipped away from their hotel in the Dominican Republic early Monday in an apparent effort to launch ...

The Cincinnati Reds will commence a 32-game spring training schedule in Goodyear, Arizona, on Feb. 21. The Reds, now in their ...

A Cuban baseball coach at the Little League World Series has gone missing during the country’s first appearance in the international tournament, a league spokesperson confirmed. Bayamo Little League ...

MIAMI (AP) — A month before their fellow major leaguers will report for spring training, Aroldis Chapman, Yuli Gurriel and several other Cuban big leaguers assembled on an intimate field in Miami this ...

HAVANA (AP) — Cuba’s unprecedented effort to stop a devastating baseball talent drain doesn’t seem to be working, with a string of stars leaving for the major leagues in the year since the government ...

SAN DIEGO - As Juana Hernandez walked through the gates at Petco Park on Monday night, she immediately began to dance to the Caribbean beats of her youth. Shaking her hips and rotating her shoulders ...

Officials with Major League Baseball and the Cuban Baseball Federation said Wednesday they had reached a deal that would allow Cuban citizens to play in the United States and return home in the ...

President Trump scrapped an agreement that would have allowed Cuban ballplayers to come to the United States without defecting. Getty Images Baseball is a colorful sport where bleacher bums spend ...