Madrid Spain.- The Association of Cuban Professional Baseball Players (ACPBP) submitted an application for an independent Cuba team to participate in the 2024 Caribbean Series.
“Taking advantage of the day of Cuban heritage, our Association of Professional Cuban Baseball Players today presented the Marlins with an application to participate in the 2024 Caribbean Series, which will be held in the city of Miami,” the ACPBP reported through Twitter.
Taking advantage of the day of Cuban heritage, our Association of Professional Cuban Baseball Players today presented the Marlins with an application to participate in the 2024 Caribbean Series, which will take place in the city of Miami. pic.twitter.com/T2H7GoXSs3
— Association of Professional Cuban Players (@beisprocuba) May 21, 2022
The declaration, signed by Jorge Morejón and Mario Fernández (secretary and president of the ACPBP, respectively), highlights that the team would participate on behalf of all Cubans.
“Our objective is a claim for justice that has been denied to the best baseball players on the island in 6 decades, since professionalism was eliminated in Cuba in 1962 and sport was used as a banner for political propaganda,” reads the statement. application.
The Association pointed out that the regime has prevented throughout history from participating in the main international competitions, including the World Baseball Classic and the Caribbean Series, “the best baseball players who, as free men, decided to carve out for themselves a future in professional sport.
The ACPBP intends to give representation, not only to those players who play at the highest level of the Major Leagues in the United States, but to all those who play in other professional circuits, such as Mexico, Japan, Korea or Taiwan, freely and independent of the Cuban Baseball Federation (FCB).
Association of Professional Cuban Players (ACPBP)
The Association of Cuban Professional Baseball Players was created at the beginning of last March, with the main objective of representing Cuba in World Classics and other top level world events.
The idea arose from the poor performances of Cuban players in recent international tournaments, and the declarations of Cuban players who play abroad who intend to join a unified Cuban team, and thus face other nations. that make up the teams with their best players.
Since its creation, the Association of Professional Cuban Baseball Players has tried to be allowed to represent Cuba in the next World Baseball Classic to be held in 2023.
From the very beginning, the idea had the support of well-known sports figures, including former stars such as Luis Tiant, Edilberto Oropesa, René Arocha and Euclides Rojas; and current players such as Randy Arozarena, Guillermo Heredia, Raisel Iglesias, José Abreu and Aroldis Chapman.
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