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In the most relaxed event of the U.S. president’s historic visit, it really was the taking part that mattered as Cuba’s national team took on the Tampa Bay Rays After an awkward three days of politics, it was baseball that finally brought Cuba and the United States out from half a century of cold war deep freeze on Tuesday, as Barack Obama’s historic visit concluded with a frenzied, but friendly, sporting clash. They have been playing baseball in Cuba since 1864, but there can have been few more eagerly anticipated games than that between the Cuban national team and the U.S. Major League Baseball side the Tampa Bay Rays. [Read more].

• Dan Roberts, Obama embraces Cuba’s pastime with a spot of baseball diplomacy, The Guardian, March 22, 2016

Barack Obama and his family react to the baseball game alongside the Cuban president, Raúl Castro. Photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters.