--- title: Watch President Obama Do the Wave With Raul Castro description: President Obama attended a baseball game with the Cuban leader on Tuesday. canonical: https://time.com/4268214/president-obama-castro-the-wave/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-22T19:50:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:31:03.908Z og:title: Watch President Obama Do the Wave With Raúl Castro at a Baseball Game og:description: Michelle joined in, too og:url: https://time.com/4268214/president-obama-castro-the-wave/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch President Obama Do the Wave With Raúl Castro at a Baseball Game twitter:description: Michelle joined in, too twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch President Obama Do the Wave With Raúl Castro at a Baseball Game  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 22, 2016 7:50 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 22, 2016 7:50 PM UTC President Obama attended a baseball game with Cuban President [Raúl Castro](http://time.com/4265652/obama-cuba-castro-summit-detente/) on Tuesday following Monday’s [diplomatic meeting](http://time.com/4266772/barack-obama-raul-castro-press-conference-transcript/) between the two leaders. The men sat next to each other at Havana’s Estadio Latinoamericano as the Tampa Bay Rays and the Cuban national team faced off in a historic matchup. They were even spotted doing “the wave.” > [](https://twitter.com/FOXSports/status/712348077252685824) **Read More:** [President Obama Declares a ‘New Day’ in U.S.-Cuba Relations After Castro Meeting](http://time.com/4266394/obama-cuba-castro-meeting/) Here’s an angle that shows the whole first family getting in on the fun. Before the exhibition began, both Obama and Castro observed a moment of silence with the rest of the crowd to honor the victims of Tuesday’s [terrorist attacks in Brussels](http://time.com/4267339/brussels-terrorist-attacks-latest/?xid=homepage), according to [Breitbart](http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/03/22/president-obama-does-the-wave-with-castro-during-baseball-game-in-cuba/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4268214/president-obama-castro-the-wave/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4268214/president-obama-castro-the-wave/"},"headline":"Watch President Obama Do the Wave With Raúl Castro at a Baseball Game","datePublished":"2016-03-22T19:50:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:31:03.908Z","description":"Michelle joined in, too","url":"https://time.com/4268214/president-obama-castro-the-wave/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Barack Obama","politics","Cuba topic","President Barack Obama","Raul Castro"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4268214/president-obama-castro-the-wave/","name":"Watch President Obama Do the Wave With Raúl Castro at a Baseball Game"}}]}] ```