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The new Major League Baseball season starts this weekend set against the backdrop of a new era in relations between Cuba and the USA.

The sport has always played a significant role politically between the two countries, not least back in the 1960s for a young man from Maryland, USA at the start of his sporting career.

Tom Brown is one of very few people who have played professional football - he won two Super Bowls - and Major League baseball.
He's also unique in being the only man picked to play by the President!

Photo: US President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, raising from his seat to watch the flight of the ball during a baseball game at Washington D.C. Stadium. Credit: STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images