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In 1947 Fidel Castro was a young Havanna college student who played baseball REALLY well, enough so that he was offered $5000 to sign up with the New York Giants as a pitcher.

He spent a couple of weeks discussing it with friends and associates before deciding to reject the offer. Ten years later he was dictator of Cuba.

So what if he had taken the offer?

He must have been seriously tempted to take two weeks to decided to reject it. So the very real possiblity exists that Castro might now best be remembered as a famous baseball player of the late 40's and 50's.

- Would someone else have just taken over the role he played and Cuba had basically the same history? (Batista lasts a year or two more or less, nothing massive in the way of change)

- Was Fidel's personal leadership sufficiently important that without it the whole thing works out differently?
-- Ie the communists in the hills stay a nusiance, on the level of the communist rebels in eastern India, they have been active for decades but no one thinks of them as a threat to India's economic growth rate, let alone its government.

Your thought Ladies and Gentlemice...
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