Soviet Union national baseball team

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The Soviet Union national baseball team was a national team of Soviet Union that represented the nation in senior-level men's international competition.

The team toured the US in 1989 as part of a 12 game goodwill tour to learn the game. In the first game of the tour, they were defeated 21-1 in seven innings by a United States Naval Academy team composed of second and third string players.

sources include: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE2DF113AF931A25757C0A96F948260 A New York times article about the team