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President Obama expected to attend Rays-Cuba exhibition game
Source: ESPN
President Obama expected to attend Rays-Cuba exhibition game
ESPN.com news services 8:45 PM ET
The Tampa Bay Rays will travel to Cuba to play the Cuban National Team in an exhibition game on March 22, and U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to be in attendance.
"Americans and Cubans share a love of baseball, and this is yet another powerful reminder of the kinship between our peoples as well as the progress we can achieve when we leverage those natural ties," a White House official said Tuesday.
The announcement of the president's planned attendance was first made on SportsCenter. The game will be televised on ESPN and ESPN Deportes. SportsCenter and Outside the Lines begin live coverage March 20 of the Rays' trip to Havana.
Major League Baseball and the MLBPA officially announced the exhibition in a release earlier Tuesday evening. It will be the first visit to Cuba by an MLB team since the Baltimore Orioles played an exhibition game there against the Cuban National Team in 1999.
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ESPN.com news services 8:45 PM ET
The Tampa Bay Rays will travel to Cuba to play the Cuban National Team in an exhibition game on March 22, and U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to be in attendance.
"Americans and Cubans share a love of baseball, and this is yet another powerful reminder of the kinship between our peoples as well as the progress we can achieve when we leverage those natural ties," a White House official said Tuesday.
The announcement of the president's planned attendance was first made on SportsCenter. The game will be televised on ESPN and ESPN Deportes. SportsCenter and Outside the Lines begin live coverage March 20 of the Rays' trip to Havana.
Major League Baseball and the MLBPA officially announced the exhibition in a release earlier Tuesday evening. It will be the first visit to Cuba by an MLB team since the Baltimore Orioles played an exhibition game there against the Cuban National Team in 1999.
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Read more: http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/14879877/president-barack-obama-expected-attend-exhibition-game-cuba
