Just 90 miles of open ocean separate Andy Pages’ boyhood home in Mantua, Cuba, from the southern tip of the Florida Keys. Yet the short distance between those two points is unbridgeable.
Politics has separated Cuba and the U.S. for most of the last 65 years, the last vestiges of a Cold War policy that has divided families and hurt people on both sides of the Straits of Florida far more than it has punished the Cuban government.
So when the Dodgers open the World Series against the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday, Pages’ parents and his sister won’t be sitting in the stands with the other players’ families.