Why so many baseball players are Dominican

[SKY]

And why so many of those players are among the best in Major League Baseball.

Why so many baseball players are Dominican

And why so many of those players are among the best in Major League Baseball.

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[windeguy]

Sources: Dominican Baseball: New Pride, Old Prejudice by Alan Klein https://www.amazon.com/Dominican-Base... Sugarball: The American Game, the Dominican Dream by Alan Klein https://www.amazon.com/Sugarball-Amer... Pitching Democracy: Baseball and Politics in the Dominican Republic by April Yoder https://www.amazon.com/Pitching-Democ... Playing America’s Game: Baseball, Latinos and the Color Line by Adrian Burgos https://www.amazon.com/Playing-Americ... Further reading/watching: MLB’s International Draft would Affect Dominican Republic https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/24/sp... ‘A failed system’: A corrupt process exploits Dominican baseball prospects. Is an international draft really the answer? https://theathletic.com/3080470/2022/... Inside Baseball’s Dominican Sweatshop System https://www.typeinvestigations.org/in... Baseball Is A Field Of Dreams — And Dashed Hopes — For Dominicans https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsand... MLB’s neo colonial practices in the Dominican Republic Academy system https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/...

 

[windeguy]

Baseball been berry berry good....

 

[Lucifer]

Sources: Dominican Baseball: New Pride, Old Prejudice by Alan Klein https://www.amazon.com/Dominican-Base... Sugarball: The American Game, the Dominican Dream by Alan Klein https://www.amazon.com/Sugarball-Amer... Pitching Democracy: Baseball and Politics in the Dominican Republic by April Yoder https://www.amazon.com/Pitching-Democ... Playing America’s Game: Baseball, Latinos and the Color Line by Adrian Burgos https://www.amazon.com/Playing-Americ... Further reading/watching: MLB’s International Draft would Affect Dominican Republic https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/24/sp... ‘A failed system’: A corrupt process exploits Dominican baseball prospects. Is an international draft really the answer? https://theathletic.com/3080470/2022/... Inside Baseball’s Dominican Sweatshop System https://www.typeinvestigations.org/in... Baseball Is A Field Of Dreams — And Dashed Hopes — For Dominicans https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsand... MLB’s neo colonial practices in the Dominican Republic Academy system https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/...

As well as "The Tropic of Baseball," by Rob Ruck.