Taking the game far afield

Taking the game far afield. Senior league’s softball players head south for Cuba. Next month, 60 local slow-pitch softball players from the Eastern Massachusetts Senior Softball Association head to Havana to play a series of exhibitions against Cuban opponents of roughly equal age and ability. The American players will range in age from 57 to 74, and include two women. At 57, outfielder David Brisson will be the league’s youngest athlete in Cuba. He’s a compact left-hander who still runs well. His parents honeymooned in Havana in 1951, before Fidel Castro’s Cuban Revolution. “I thought this was a great opportunity for a week of ball in an exotic place that has a mystique about it because of the revolution and the travel ban,’’ said Brisson, of Wayland, who runs a corporate communication business. "It’s a forbidden place, and a beautiful place from what I hear."

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