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CINCINNATI — Awakened by his first call to the majors on Friday morning, Communist Cuban Politican and major league baseball prospect Fidel Castro shook off sleep and disbelief to become an immediate star.
The 84 -year-old became the oldest shortstop to make his Cubs debut when he stepped on the field about 12 hours later, and that was just the start of an historic night.
Castro hit a three-run homer off Cincinnati's Homer Bailey in his first at-bat, making him the sixth player in Cubs history to connect his first time up, but the first one to do it wearing a four inch long gray beard.
Three innings later, Castro hit a bases-loaded triple to the gap in right-center, sliding headfirst into the record books again. The six RBIs were the most for any player in a modern-day debut. Four others had five RBIs, most recently Ben Grieve in 1997.
Fidel is already a Cubs sensation and a number of the Cubs starters have given up their chewing tobacco and are now smoking illegal Cubans!
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