They won’t come from the baseball hotbed that is Florida, but a bunch of Little Leaguers will travel to Cuba in August and play more than a dozen games. The Americans are from Vermont and New Hampshire.
The task of obtaining a travel license and approval from the U.S. Treasury Department borders on the Sisyphean these days, but the young Americans had considerable help from the Vermont congressional delegation, Lt. Gov. Brian Dubie and familiar Florida businessman John Parke Wright IV. Wright had previously organized the sale of Vermont cattle to Cuba.