- Eduardo Paret
Eduardo Paret Pérez (born
October 23 ,1972 in Santa Clara) is aCuba nbaseball player. He is ashortstop for Villa Clara of theCuban National Series , and for the Cuban national baseball team [cite web|url=http://www.radiococo.cu/Fichas/villa%20clara/vclparet.htm|title=Eduardo Paret Pérez|language=Spanish|accessdate=2006-10-10|] .Paret was the starting shortstop on the Cuban teams that won
gold medals at the 1996 and2004 Summer Olympics and second place at the2006 World Baseball Classic . He was namedmost valuable player of the 2005World Cup of Baseball after going 12 for 19 with 8 stolen bases in the tournament [cite web|url=http://www.wkhonkbal.nl/index.php?taal=eng|title=World Cup Baseball 2005|publisher=official site] .In July 1997, Paret and his Villa Clara teammates
Osmani García and Angel López spoke with Cuban defectorRolando Arrojo by telephone. As a result, they were banned from Cuban baseball for "maintaining contact with baseball traitors." [cite book|last=Jamail|first=Milton H.|title=Full Count: Inside Cuban Baseball|year=2000|publisher=Southern Illinois University Press|id=ISBN 0-8093-2310-9|location=Carbondale, Illinois |pages=page 88] The ban has since been lifted.OnJuly 28 ,2006 ,ESPN .com reported that Paret andYulieski Gourriel had defected from Cuba and into Colombia.cite web|title=Report: Cuban baseball players defect in Colombia|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2533062&campaign=rss&source=MLBHeadlines|work=ESPN.com news services|accessdate=July 28|accessyear=2006] . Days later, Gourriel denied the reportcite web|author=Rojas, Enrique|title=Cuban star Gourriel has no interest in deserting|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?id=2536573|work=ESPNdeportes.com|accessdate=August 1|accessyear=2006] .References
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