Each relates an anecdote to appeal to the reader’s emotions. I think emotions is the main appeal in these two accounts the first I believe it is talking about Fidel Castro and how despite his amazing curve ball pitching in baseball he wasn't hired by the Washington Senators and instead created a revolution in the mountains evokes powerful emotions about how the outcome of his life's fate was decided . The excerpt from "Like Mexicans" shows emotions ie embarrassment at being held by the hand and led along with the woman or girl's mother.