By Kyle Tait

Barbaro Garbey defected from Cuba in the early 1980s to play baseball in the United States. He wasn’t able to return until this past January to visit friends and family he hadn’t seen in more than three decades.

Leading up to Sunday’s 1:00 PM first pitch, Kyle Tait caught up with the Missisippi Braves’ first base coach to talk about Cuban-American relations in baseball, the 1984 Tigers’ World Series team (on which he was a rookie), and the emotions of returning to his home country after so long away.

Hear the full interview:

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Kyle Tait is in his sixth season as the radio voice of the Mississippi Braves, double-A affiliate of the Atlanta Braves. Follow him on Twitter: @HearKyleTait, and take a listen at HearKyleTait.com