Baseball officials said they made the request earlier this month.
Their concern stemmed from a Miami-based pilot's apparent intention during the Orioles-Cuba game on March 28 to drop leaflets over the stadium in Havana, The Post said.
``We're working together with the Cuban delegation and we've gone over all sorts of security issues,'' Pat Courtney, a baseball spokesman told The Post. ``On the question of airspace, we haven't received an answer yet.''
Richard Levin, another baseball spokesman, said Saturday that it was ``normal procedure for any of our big events'' such as World Series games, to ask for restrictions on planes flying over.
Jim Peters, FAA spokesman for the eastern region, confirmed Saturday that the FAA had received a request to keep traffic away from the stadium during the game, but said he didn't know where it came from or the reason it was made.
The FAA told ``the party that made the request that they should contact the U.S. Secret Service,'' he said.
``Extraordinary circumstances usually surround these kinds of restrictions,'' Peters said, citing restrictions around the Washington D.C. area during the NATO summit as an example.
Jose Basulto, the pilot who planned to drop literature on the Havana stadium, told The Post he had no intention of trying again in Baltimore.
He criticized the May 3 game as an ``insult that trivializes the suffering of the Cuban people.''
Basulto, a veteran of the failed U.S.-sponsored invasion of Cuba in 1961, founded a humanitarian group called Brothers to the Rescue in 1994 to assist Cubans escaping the island on rafts.
Three years ago, four of his followers were killed when Cuban air force jets shot down two of the group's planes in international airspace over the Straits of Florida. Basulto, piloting a third plane in the area, escaped.
In February, Basulto dropped leaflets from the air to commemorate the third anniversary of the 1996 downing. Some floated into downtown Havana, according to a story in a Spanish-language paper published by the Miami Herald.
Basulto told The Post his plan to do the same on March 28 was interrupted by an unscheduled FAA inspection as two planes were seeking clearance for takeoff from Opa-Locka airport in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Basulto said he acknowledged to inspectors who found half a million leaflets in the two planes his intention to drop them on the stadium that day.
The planes eventually were cleared for takeoff, but when Basulto's planes reached the spot 10 miles north of Havana where he planned to release the leaflets, wind conditions had changed. The plan was abandoned.
The FAA's regional office in Atlanta said in a statement that all flights south of the Straits of Florida are ``monitored closely'' and that the inspection was ``not out of the ordinary,'' The Post reported.
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