dominican baseball!!!!

Coming from the sugar mill towns of San Pedro de Macoris, to fields all across Dominican Republic, young, poor kids dream of some day to play in the Major League Baseball and bring to their families finantial security and a better life style. Dominican Republic has a great passion for baseball going far above anywhere else.

For Dominican Republic baseball, from late October to February is when the professional baseball is played, where professional baseball players can come back to play in their country and share with their families, also where the young players improve their skills, and where northamericans come to play good baseball.

Since the 1950's when Osvaldo Virgil made dominican baseball famous by playing in the major leagues, we have seen a huge quantity of dominicans players parading for the professionalism in the USA. Guys like the three Alou brothers, Juan Marichal, Sammy Sosa, Pedro Martinez and currently, Albert Pujols, Robinson Cano, Vladimir Guerrero, Usbaldo Jimenez have showed during their stay in the Major Leagues the quality and the delivery that dominican baseball player have for this sport.

During the ten yearsd war in Cuba, many cubans emigrated to Dominican Republic bringing with them this game called "Baseball". And this sport became very quickly in our National sport and our passion. No matter where you go in the island you will find a baseball park, even in the poorest towns; something very common that you can find in Dominican Republic are the little kids playing on the streets, or any empty field where they can play. Baseball season never ends in my country, young guys and their coaches are getting ready waiting for the moment that any scout of a major league team sing this guy. Baseball is played in love and this young kids can spend all day on the baseball field watching, playing, and talking about baseball. Today more than one in six playersin the American Leagues is from Latin America, the majority if them coming from the towns located on the Southeastern of Dominican Republic.