Fidel Castro Is a Big Fan of Baseball

Fidel Castro is a big fan of baseball. According to the anthropologist Thomas Carter, this is related to

A) The hypocrisy of Cuban communists.
B) The association of baseball with anticolonial politics prior to Cuban independence.
C) Castro's attempts to rebuild social and economic ties to the United States following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
D) The fact that Castro spent his youth in the United States.