SPN506 BLOG

Our recent look into the Dominican Republic was very interesting in my opinion. Every single country has its favorite sport. The United States seems to favor football over the other sports while in many countries Soccer is the number one sport to play. Dominican Republic children grow up playing a form of baseball that uses bottle caps and other small objects to hit instead of the traditional baseball. As soon as they are able to until they grow into their late teens, the children play this form of baseball almost every chance they get which is about everyday. They don't run bases or score runs like baseball, instead they just try to hit the tiny objects and see how far they can go. Since the bottle caps are so tiny, this allows them to become very good with hitting. Professional baseball players that are from Dominican Republic, such as David Ortiz, contribute their hitting skills to playing this form of baseball/stickball as a kid in the Dominican Republic with their friends.