June 5, 1972
Castro plays basketball during a state visit to Sofia, Bulgaria.
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Though baseball is the de facto national sport of Cuba, the country’s leader Fidel Castro was a passionate player of a different game: basketball.
The 6-foot-3-inch future dictator was a fiercely competitive player during his high school years at El Colegio de Beléna in Havana, devoting more of his energies to basketball, baseball, track and field and table tennis than to academic pursuits.
Castro relished sports as a chance to show off his athletic prowess and demonstrate that he could excel at anything, a habit he continued after taking control of the country in 1959. Read more...
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