Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with.

Keen baseball fan and Cuban dictator Fidel Castro was voted Cuba's best all-around schoolboy athlete in 1945.

Castro, who stepped down today as Cuba's president, threw a mean curve ball as a young man, and he attended baseball games until he was struck down with a debilitating illness in 2006.

For years, it was rumored that Castro had tried out for an American baseball team. Unfortunately, that turned out to be an urban myth.

While Castro eventually outlawed professional sports, he continued to play in exhibition games against "Occidente" (the West).

At 81, Castro's baseball days are now probably over. Then again, it's never wise to count out a man who has survived so many assassination attempts.