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...Goldsmith Award in Investigative Journalism went to Russell Carollo, Carol Hernandez, Jeff Nesmith and Cheryl Reed of the Dayton Daily News for investigative work on "Military Secrets" and "Prisoners on Payroll...
Fernandez and Hernandez are pitchers, far better pitchers than Fidel Castro ever was, so good that they were national heroes in Cuba. As such, they were given certain entitlements. In the case of Fernandez, the best pitcher for Cuba during the past Olympics, the privileged life included a Moskvich car, immunity from food shortages, $5 a month in wages and closely guarded travel with the national team. Nobody was watching, though, when he slipped out of his motel in Millington, Tennessee, at 7 a.m. last July and got into a van that drove him to Miami...
Behind the wheel was Joe Cubas, a 35-year-old Miami contractor who has shadowed the Cuban team for several years. Now the agent for both players, Cubas executed a similar pick-off play with Hernandez two months later in Mexico. The pitchers soon found themselves being wined and dined by a dozen clubs. They even partied with Gloria Estefan, courtesy of the Florida Marlins. They were also offered money beyond their dreams...
...January, Hernandez, 21, signed a four-year, $4.5 million deal with the Marlins, and Fernandez, 27, accepted a three-year, $3.2 million package from the San Francisco Giants. Other teams offered more, but Hernandez chose the Marlins because "Miami tastes like Cuba," while Fernandez opted for the Giants because of their Latin tradition--Juan Marichal, the Alou brothers--and because they needed pitching...
None other than Castro himself thinks the Marlins got the better arm. But Hernandez may be too young for the majors this season, even though he had two scoreless innings in his spring-training debut last Wednesday. The more experienced Fernandez has already been penciled into the Giants' rotation. Their weekly meal money alone--$563--is almost 10 times what they made in a year in Cuba. "Maybe one day they will come back to Cuba and bring their money with them," Castro told TIME last week...