Major League Baseball gets in on US-Cuban thaw

Cuban baseball stars Jose Abreu and Yasiel Puig are returning home Tuesday for the first time since defecting to join the American big leagues, part of an unprecedented Major League Baseball tour made possible by the thaw in US-Cuban relations. Baseball is a shared passion in the United States and Cuba, but also a source of acrimony in their decades-long estrangement. To play under the bright lights of a Major League Baseball stadium, Cuban stars have to abandon their homeland, as did Chicago Wh