Will DR soon have a baseball stadium for MLB games?

[Dolores]

Vitelio Mejía / 7 Días

The Presidency is moving forward the initiative to provide Santo Domingo with a MLB-standard baseball stadium.

President Luis Abinader has named the former president of the Supreme Court of Justice Jorge Subero Isa to chair a special advisory commission in charge of determining the feasibility of constructing a modern baseball stadium on government-owned land in the Ensanche La Fe sector of the National District.

Other key public officials and private sector experts on the commission are the Minister of Sports, the general manager of the Development and Export Bank (Bandex), the executive director of the National Baseball Commissioner’s Office, and legal specialists Angélica Noboa Pagán, Elka Shecker Mendoza, Olivo Rodríguez Huertas. Edgar Torres Reynoso will serve as executive director.

According to the official decree (No. 306-25), the commission’s...

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[trspencer]

MLB seemed to love the idea of baseball in Puerto Rico, stands to reason they'd be just as supportive of playing a series here every few years given how many players are from here. A Mets/Marlins series in Santo Domingo?? I'd go!