The Thursday 18 February 2016 issue of The New York Times features an illustrated report on the rewards and struggles and prevalence of baseball dreams in the Dominican Republic.
The report focuses on how “the sport is stitched into life’s fabric” and is many a young man’s dream of a better future. Every Major League team in the US operates a baseball academy in the DR as “launching pads” into the Minor Leagues, the first step onto the Major Leagues.
To mark the start of Major League Baseball in the US, reporter and photographer Michael Hanson point outs that the sport never really stops in the Dominican Republic. “It is a year-round religion, a potential ticket out of poverty, and the result is that the country produces more major leaguers than any other nation with the exception of the USA.”
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/02/18/sports/baseball/dominican-republic-baseball-spring-training.html?_r=0
