When President Obama heads to Havana later this month he is expected to take in a baseball game featuring the Cuban national team against the visiting Tampa Bay Rays. Cuba has long been a hotbed of the sport and more than a dozen Cuban-born players are now on major league rosters. That number could grow by a lot and soon, if Major League Baseball has its way.

Baseball has long been a mutual passion for the United States and Cuba There have been Cuban born players in America from the game’s earliest days, in the 1800s.

Source: Texas Public Radio