Maybe i am wrong...........i was going off of something i read............

A long-standing myth in America is that Castro tried out for either the New York Yankees or Washington Senators and failed to impress enough to sign a contract; while a fan of baseball, Castro was not a good enough player to warrant such a try-out and there is no record of having his played professionally. It is likely he pitched in intramural competition in college for the University of Havana law school, but he was not good enough to pitch on the college's varsity team. See this Universal newsreel for a short clip of Castro pitching in a charity game in Cuba in 1959.

Castro stepped down as head of the Cuban government in 2008 following a lengthy period of illness. He still had an effect on major league baseball in 2012 when Miami Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen was suspended after praising Castro's durability in aTime interview.