Cuba national baseball team

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The Cuba national baseball team (Spanish: Selección de béisbol de Cuba) also known as "Team Asere", represents Cuba in baseball at regional and international levels. The team is generally made up of players from the domestic Cuban national baseball system, though it has at times included players who defected to the United States. Cuba was described in 2009 as a baseball powerhouse and currently ranks 12th in World Baseball Softball Confederation's world rankings. For much of the 20th century, Cuba dominated tournaments such as the Baseball World Cup (originally, the Amateur World Series), where it won 25 titles (22 more than the next-closest nation) between 1939 and 2005. Its success stemmed, in part, from the nominally amateur status of its domestic league, as professional players from other leagues were largely excluded from international competition. During this period, it enjoyed similar dominance at the Pan American Games and the Central American and Caribbean Games. Cuba has been...

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