{"id":139389,"date":"1996-11-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"1996-11-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=139389"},"modified":"1996-11-07T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"1996-11-07T12:00:00","slug":"more-dr-players-in-world-series-than-any-latin-american-nation-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1996\/11\/07\/more-dr-players-in-world-series-than-any-latin-american-nation-1\/","title":{"rendered":"More D.R. players in World Series than any Latin American nation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<p>With the end of the 1996 World Series of baseball in the U.S., the Dominican Republic is currently the Latin American nation that has had the most participants in the &#8220;Fall Classic&#8221;. In this year&#8217;s Series, the D.R. had only three: Rafael Belliard and Luis Polonia of the Atlanta Braves, and Mariano Duncan of the New York Yankees. The first Dominicans to reach a World Series were Felipe Alou, his brother Mateo and Juan Marichal, all three of whom were with the San Francisco Giants in 1962.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Puerto Rico is second to the D.R. with 37 participants in the World Series, followed by Cuba (22), Venezuela (17), Panama (11), Mexico (seven), Nicaragua (two) and Cura\u00e7ao (one).<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the end of the 1996 World Series of baseball in the U.S., the Dominican Republic is currently the Latin American nation that has had the most participants in the &#8220;Fall Classic&#8221;. In this year&#8217;s Series, the D.R. had only three: Rafael Belliard and Luis Polonia of the Atlanta Braves, and Mariano Duncan of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1996\/11\/07\/more-dr-players-in-world-series-than-any-latin-american-nation-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[281,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}