Los Santos slugger Yoni Garcia, 14, gets congratulations from Cody McCuster of Thetford, Vt. Little League Baseball refused to sanction the trip, and some parents were initially hesitant having their kids visit a communist country. "Yeah, it's a political belief, it doesn't mean everyone has horns on their head," said coach Ted Levin, a nature writer who visited Cuba in 1993. "They're just human beings who happen to love the same game we love."