The quality of competition at the quadrennial Pan-American games rarely requires U.S. athletes to do anything more exhausting than show up except when it comes to baseball. To Latin Amer icans, baseball is a passion, not just a pastime, as the U.S. team learned last week at Winnipeg when it lost its very first game 4-3, and to Cuba at that. But by week's end the embarrassment was eased by the brilliant performances of U.S. swimmersnot so much be cause they won practically everything in sight (nine of eleven events), but because...
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