Dominican Republic

I found the classes recent cultural study of the Dominican Republic quite interesting. Just as Dominican Spanish is very different from that of the Spanish from the South American continent, baseball to them is different than baseball to Americans. To many Dominicans, baseball is not only a craze but a way out. Learning to hit a whizzing bottlecap zigging and zagging through the air is a farcry from the American kids tradition of stickball. The ability to hone their skills allows Dominicans to be highly sought after in Major League Baseball. David Ortiz is one such success story now hitting the long ball for the Boston Red Sox. As long as the children of the Dominican Republic keep playing their traditional form of baseball, the MLB should see a steady stream of talent flowing in from the Dominican shores.