“Connie Marrero had a windup that looked like a cross between a windmill gone berserk and a mallard duck trying to fly backwards,” former big league star Felipe Alou once said

That alone deserves a pension.

Many a face-wasted night at the Mi Sueños Bar I would randomly yell out…” Where did the home runs win?”

Cuban baseball is in the middle of an inexplicable slump. Barely two weeks after the beginning of the 52 National Series and already worrisome signs jump at you when you a peek at the statistics. None of the experts I approached with the simplest of questions had an answer at hand: where did the homeruns win?

In the first 65 games, batters had only hit 45 homers, for a meager 0.66 per ...