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By MICHAEL POWELL, New York Times
Sun, 12/21/2014 - 7:10pm

In Cuba, from the games on the fields to those played in streets with baseballs wrapped in duct tape or bottle caps tossed with precision, it’s a love pursued amid the ruins.

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