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...Reported by Aixa M. Pascual and Jane Van Tassel/New York and Bruce van Voorst/Washington
Although Cuban pelota remains a mystery to the average fan, baseball people know just how good it is. In his spring-training office in Scottsdale, Arizona, last week, Giants manager Dusty Baker rattled off some names--"Tony Perez, Tito Fuentes, Tony Taylor, Camilo Pascual, Tony Gonzalez, Pedro Ramos, Tony Oliva"--and then said, "Every Cuban I have ever played with or against knew how this game is played...
Being among the victors did not bring Cela many spoils. In 1942 his novel The Family of Pascual Duarte caused a sensation. Ostensibly the memoir of a triple murderer awaiting execution, the novel portrayed a Spanish countryside awash in madness, vengeance and bloodshed. The work was harshly attacked. Mordantly, Cela dedicated the book "to my enemies, who have been of such help to me in my career." In 1951 came The Hive, which was banned outright by the Franco government. This terse, episodic novel retailed the incidental miseries of some 160 inhabitants of a squalid Madrid...
...Darryl Strawberry is not a hoodlum who beats up his teammates. For 24 hours, Pascual Perez is not a drug abuser. Just once, Steve Garvey is monogamous...
...Pascual Perez...