"Be it known that at the end of our baseball season, my firing squad will execute the batter with the lowest batting average and the pitcher with the highest earned run average."
El Jefe Marcos de Conejos Feo, the dictator of the tiny country of the República de Santa Clara, made this decree standing on the balcony of the presidential palace in his khaki uniform, all sparkly with undeserved medals. A smokey stench from the previous night's book burning still hung in the air. The building of La Hora, Santa Clara's only newspaper, stood at the opposite end of the plaza, boarded up with grey weather-beaten wooden shutters covering its windows and pro-government graffiti covering its doors. Read the Rest of the Story.