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Cuban Softball Players Attend Special Dinner Party in Newton
The senior softball team is only the second ever to be allowed to travel to the United States.

A Newton woman hosted a very special dinner party, with the guests coming all the way from Cuba – her native country.
Alina Bracciale fled with her family from the island in 1959 when Fidel Castro took over Cuba. Last week she hosted a Cuban softball team in the area for the Friendship Games – a series of games against players from the Eastern Massachusetts Senior Softball League and the Bay State Senior Softball Association, according to a story in the Boston Globe.
The team played games around the area, including in Jamaica Plain.
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The trip by the team of softball players in the 60s marks only the second time a Cuban players have been allowed to leave the island to play softball, and the first time it has been sanctioned by the Cuban Ministry of Sports, the Globe reported.
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