Federal Investigation Targets Baseball Clubs That Sign Cuban Defectors
A federal investigation into the smuggling of Cuban baseball players to the U.S. is targeting MLB team officials.
A federal investigation into the smuggling of Cuban baseball players to the U.S. is targeting MLB team officials.
By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com This is a Christmas story, but it really began just before Thanksgiving in 1987, at the Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta. The Cuban inmates had rioted and had taken control of a sizeable portion of the penitentiary. The catalyst for the riots happened years before that in 1980. The Mariel boatlift,…