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US to play Cuba in Pan Am games baseball final
2007-07-18 23:19
by Bob Timmermann

Cuba shoots for its tenth straight Pan American Games gold medal Thursday against the USA in the championship game in Rio de Janeiro.

The US has finished second six times during that stretch. The USA won the gold only once, back in 1967, when the games were held in Winnipeg. Players on that team included current Stanford coach Mark Marquess, future major league player John Curtis, and former USC quaterback and catcher Steve Sogge.

The baseball venue in Rio isn't the fanciest as you can see from this clip of a Mexico-Panama game.

Brazilian baseball (beisebol in Portuguese) is heavily influenced by Japanese immigrants. This clip is an example of it:

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