As the World Baseball Classic gets underway Thursday, Team Cuba will take the field despite the U.S. denying several team staffers the ability to enter the United States. The Cuban Baseball and Softball Federation announced last week that pitching coach Pedro Luis Lazo, organization president Juan Reinaldo Pérez Pardo and secretary general Carlos del Pino Muñoz were among the eight people denied visas to travel to Puerto Rico for the team’s games starting Friday. All players on the team