Fred Wilpon, president of the New York Mets, met with President Leonel Fernández yesterday at the National Palace. President Fernández reminisced that as a teenager, when he lived in New York, he would run behind the buses of the Mets and the Giants. Wilpon informed the President of his plans to build an academy for the Mets in Santo Domingo. Bobby Valentine of the Mets promised the President to lobby for the cooperation of Major League team organizations to donate computers for the public schools program of the government. The President has already enlisted the Dominican Major League baseball players in this effort. There was talk that next year all general managers of the Major League teams meet here. This would be the first time the general managers annual meeting would be held outside the United States. Minister of Sports Juan Marichal, a Major League baseball great, introduced the Mets executives to the President.
