[Antonin]

For the last couple of OOTP versions I've played a Ghana League. Backstory: Ernesto 'Che' Guevara visited Ghana in the mid-1960s, met with President Kwame Nkrumah and briefly toured the country. This part is true.

According to my backstory, those discussions with Nkrumah included agreements on cultural cooperation. Which, for Cuba, meant [among other things] sending baseball teams. The Ghanaians decided that they liked the sport, and by the 1970s established a professional league.

My occasional pan-African leagues are based on the same premise--that Cuban cultural goodwill ambassadors or military advisors planted baseball on the continent.

In Liberia's case, my backstory is that US embassy guards popularized the sport.

In my regular US-based OOTP fictional leagues I see a lot of players from unlikely places. The number one starter for my Cleveland team is from Aruba. I've also seen South Africans, Greeks, Dutch, French, and Chinese [from the PRC]. I like it. I enjoy diversity.