Top Cuban baseball player defects to United States – Dayan Viciedo From: guardian.co.uk
Tagged: Baseball, Cuba, Cuban, Spanish-languagePosted on: June 10th, 2008
A top Cuban baseball player has defected to the United States in the latest move by a promising young athlete to abandon the communist-ruled island.
Dayan Viciedo, a hard-hitting, 19-year-old third baseman from Cuba’s central Villa Clara province, left his homeland late last month and has settled in south Florida, local media said on Sunday.
El Nuevo Herald, the Spanish-language edition of the Miami Herald, was the first to report the defection of Viciedo, who started playing baseball in the Cuban majors when he was just 15.”*
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