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Backwards K PodAuthor: Jake Robinson
An educational and biographical look, at the moments and personalities, that have been woven into the fabric of baseball. Backwards K Where We Collect Ballplayers And Their Stories Language: en Genres: Baseball, History, Sports Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Tony Perez; Big Doggie
Monday, 9 February, 2026
The return of the Cold War between the United States and Cuba has only exacerbated the tide of baseball defectors from the communist nation. In October of 2012, for the first time in over 60 years, two million baseball crazy Cubans could listen to a World Series game on the radio, just as Tony and his father were able to listen to the 1955 World Series between the Dodgers and Yankees, at the old sugar mill in Camaguay, Cuba. In 1960. Tony Perez took advantage of safe passage to the United States, as did 14,000 other Cuban children, over a two year period, during Operacion Pedro Pan, a reality that could never take place in today's political climate. The re-lowering of the Coconut Curtain, between the two nations, stunts youth and imagination on both sides of the 93 mile (150km) wide Straits Of Florida. This week we follow the improbable baseball journey of The Big Dog; Tony Perez from the streets of Havana, Cuba to the Pantheon Of Immortals in Cooperstown, New York. #AtanacioRegalPerez #TonyPerez #BigDog #Doggie #CincinnatiReds #BigRedMachine #LeeMay #JohnnyBench #PeteRose #JoeMorgan #SparkyAnderson #MayorOfRiverfront #GeorgeFoster #KenGriffeySr #CaesarGeronimo #MontrealExpos #BostonRedSox #TonyPacheco #BobbyMaduro
