Cuban players refuse to play in protest of Elian Gonzalez

On April 25 2000, Honoring the work stoppage called by Cuban-Americans over the Elian Gonzalez situation, Alex Fernandez, Vladimir Núñez, Michael Tejera and Mike Lowell of the Marlins, Jose Canseco of Tampa Bay, and the Mets’ Rey Ordóñez and Cookie Rojas do not participate in major league action. The protest stems from the federal district court’s ruling that the five year-old boy must be returned to his father in Cuba, taking him away from the maternal relatives living in Miami.

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