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    Ugandan major league hopeful finally gets visa to play in MLB Draft League

    by Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times May 18, 2023 2 minutes
    Dennis Kasumba practices his swing as his grandmother Edith Natenza watches outside there home in Gayaza, Uganda.

    LOS ANGELES — After declining to issue a travel visa to Dennis Kasumba, the Ugandan orphan profiled in The Los Angeles Times, the American Embassy in Kampala backtracked Thursday and approved Kasumba's request to travel to the U.S. this month to play in the MLB Draft League.

    "I'm very happy," Kasumba said after leaving the embassy. "I'm very excited."

    Kasumba, 18, had been denied a U.S. visa three

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