Baseball is the favorite sport of Dominicans, not only as a game or hobby but as part of their national pride and identity. Hundreds of players in the big and minor leagues were born in the Dominican Republic and are a permanent source of pride for Dominicans, who celebrate them with great honor and excitement all over the country.<\/p>\n
The Winter Championship of the Dominican Professional Baseball League begins in October every year, with the participation of outstanding figures of the Major Leagues. This event ends in January of the following year. During the months of the championship, Dominican people are in a permanent state of party and anxiety, watching every detail of the \u201cball games\u201d between the main teams: Tigres del Licey, Leones del Escogido, \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as, Estrellas Orientales, Gigantes del Cibao, and Toros del Este. All other issues on the public agenda seem to automatically move to another level, because Dominicans \u201care on the ball.\u201d Few things make Dominicans more passionate than baseball.<\/p>\n
Like the other Spanish Antilles and the coastal areas of the continental Hispanic countries that share the Caribbean basin, the Dominican Republic embraced a sport that today speaks as much of its dominicanidad<\/em> as its flag of red and blue rectangles or its merengue.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Did you know?<\/strong> The \u201cvitilla\u201d game in the Dominican Republic is a popular game derived from baseball, and which emerged in the late 1970s. To play it, a plastic cap is used as a ball, usually from a 5 gallon \u201cbottle\u201d of water for human consumption; and a \u201cstick\u201d usually from a broom or \u201csuape,\u201d that is used as a bat. It is played mainly in the streets of the underprivileged neighborhoods or in any area that is intended for that purpose (a parking lot, a field or a park, for example). This sport, which is a popular party because it generates a lot of passion and excitement both in the players and the spectators, is a completely informal, typical, non-professional pastime.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n Baseball began at the end of the 19th<\/sup> century in the national territory. There is no consensus on the exact date, but it is known that small groups of people practiced the sport in the last decade of that century.<\/p>\n The first team that was formally established was the Ozama, which soon was followed by other teams. The popularity of the game grew rapidly because the population saw in it a way to unload the frustrations caused by the political and economic conflicts that kept the country in a persistent state of instability.<\/p>\n The importance of Dominican players was recognized in other countries by the beginning of the 1920s. Pitcher Baldomero Ure\u00f1a (Mero) was hired by the Ponce team from Puerto Rico in 1922, and, a short time later, in 1925, he became the first Dominican player to be hired to play for an American team, the Allentown. Other baseball players also began to join foreign leagues, especially from Puerto Rico and Venezuela, while star players from Cuba and Puerto Rico came to participate in the national championships. The national championship of 1929 is remembered as the \u201cluxury championship\u201d because of the quantity, quality and high cost of the imported players (especially from Cuba).<\/p>\n No other national championship took place until 1936. Its re-implementation comes hand in hand with the tyranny of Trujillo, who used this sport for his own manipulation, power, and personal glorification purposes. That is why he spared no expense to bring some of the best players from the American Negro League in 1937. The investment was so large that the country was left without professional baseball for 14 years.<\/p>\n In the 1950s, as the national championships were reestablished and reinforced, the first Dominicans made their debut in the United States big leagues. Osvaldo Virgil established a tradition in 1956 that only strengthened and grew richer over time. Felipe and Mateo Rojas Alou, Juan Marichal, Juli\u00e1n Javier, Ruddy Hern\u00e1ndez and Guayub\u00edn Olivo are part of the group of national pioneers who, along with him, helped open a space for Dominicans in the North American professional baseball.<\/p>\n To find out which Dominican players are currently active in the professional Major League Baseball, please visit: http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/rd\/active_players.jsp<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Did you know?<\/strong> Pedro Mart\u00ednez, a former Dominican pitcher who played in the Major League Baseball, won eight times the All-Star, three-times the Cy Young and was World Series champion in 2004. He was inducted to the Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown in 2015.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n Hundreds of Dominican players have participated in the big leagues throughout history. One of them, Juan Marichal, was full-fledged inducted to the Hall of Fame at Cooperstown; two others \u2013 Felipe Rojas Alou and Tony Pe\u00f1a \u2013 become team managers; and, many others have won awards and recognitions for their excellent performances, just to mention a few examples. The export of ball players, the import of foreign ball players and the victories of the national team in the Caribbean Series, demonstrate the level and quality of the professional baseball played in the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Did you know?<\/strong> David Ortiz, better known as \u2018Big Papi,\u2019 is another great example of a Dominican baseball player with an impeccable professional career in the Major Leagues, where he participated from 1997 to 2016, when he retired from the sport. Ortiz was a 10 times All-Star, three times champion of the World Series, and ranked among the 20 best in the world in the history of baseball, in home runs (541 throughout his career).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n It is known that exactly on June 17, 1898, the Base-Ball Club was established in the city of Santo Domingo, and whose honorary President was William Orr, administrator of the Brewery. It is also known that it soon began to expand to other towns \u2013 in fact, three other communities: Santiago, San Pedro de Macor\u00eds, and La Vega \u2013 disputed the primacy of organized baseball in the country.<\/p>\n From the beginning, baseball became very popular to the point that, only in the capital, at least two significant spaces were assigned for its practice in the period that goes from 1894 to 1910; these were the properties called \u201cLa Sabana del Estado,\u201d located in the outskirts of the city, and the Colombina Square within the city walls. Later, in the second decade of the 20th<\/sup> century, others joined: the so-called \u201cPatio de los B\u00e1ez,\u201d a group of lots located between the Padre Billini and Arzobispo Portes streets; El Gimnasio Escolar (1911); and the Licey Park, in Villa Francisca, which opened on October 4, 1914.<\/p>\n Ozama was the first team to be registered. The Licey team was created on November 7, 1907, to play against the Ozama; Licey is, to date, the team with the greatest tradition and drive in the history of Dominican baseball. It was the boom time of the sugar industry and its foreign capital; of the negotiation of the repayment of the immense international loans that were being claimed by the demanding US creditors; of the subsequent expropriation of the national customs; and of the high political instability with the governments that followed one after the other without control, and the popular uprisings. Perhaps as a consequence and partly as a channel of all that turmoil, this sport became ever more popular over time, with many other groups emerging across the country. Although they had in general an ephemeral life span, the following teams are worth mentioning: in Santo Domingo, Casino, Santo Domingo, Receptor\u00eda, Gimnasio Escolar (which barely lasted a year), Nuevo Club (1911), the team of Escuela de Agricultura (School of Agriculture), the team of Escuela Normal (School of Education), the teams of the educational institutions such as Trinitaria and Duarte, San Carlos, Columbia and Patria, Legalista (1914) and Herold (1914); in Santiago, Yaque and the Inoa (1912); Uni\u00f3n de Azua (1910); Macor\u00eds, of San Pedro de Macor\u00eds (1910).<\/p>\n The first national championships took place during this heated historical moment (1911); foreign players were hired for the first time to reinforce the local teams (in 1912, Licey imports Cuban players during the national championship of that year already underway); the first international series was held in Dominican soil, where a blended national team (\u201cEscogido Dominicano\u201d) faced\u00a0 the Ponce team of Puerto Rico; and even an illustrated magazine dedicated exclusively to baseball events entitled La Pelota (The Ball), whose Editor was Luis Eduardo Betances (1913), was published. National and local matches, Series and championships with massive attendance and entertained with music, and joyful partying of fans celebrating the victory of their teams, and the inclusion of the sport in the National Olympic Games, even though it was not part of the World Olympic Games (1915), demonstrate the excitement that the sport produced in the Dominican spirit.<\/p>\n It was clear that the politicians of the time were aware of this. At the opening of the Licey Park, then-President of the Republic, Dr. Ram\u00f3n B\u00e1ez, threw the first baseball pitch (1914). In 1913, the ViceConsul of the United States in the country, Mr. Bohr, served as referee during a match between Nuevo Club and Licey. That same year, the appointed United States Minister in the Dominican Republic reported to the Secretary of State of the United States, among other things, that the importance of the popularity that baseball was having in the country could not be underestimated since, undoubtedly, it could be \u201ca real substitute for the excitement of uprisings\u201d (Naboth\u2019s Vineyard, Sumner Welles, Vol. II, p. 722, Savile Books, 1966).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n From very early on, Dominicans saw in the playing field the stage to fight and win the battles that they seemed to constantly lose in daily life. During the US intervention (1916-1924), in addition to the opposition, semi-anarchic resistance by the \u201cgavilleros\u201d in the mountains, or the one formulated by intellectuals of the main cities to make their heartfelt protest evident, baseball became the means with which the humble population minimally compensated its frustrations in light of the foreign invader. The games between Dominican teams and those formed by the marines and military personnel of the homeland of Abraham Lincoln were true patriotic exploits in which the national dignity was \u201cat play.\u201d Hence, strong local teams were formed, one of which, \u201cEl Escogido\u201d (1921), was the result of a triple alliance between the Delco Light, Los Muchachos and San Carlos teams. The press did extensive coverage of every match won by the local teams, which were the majority. After a renowned victory of the Licey against a \u201cteam\u201d made of Marines, a newspaper report read: \u201cThe U.S.M.C. teams will not win a single baseball challenge here because they are simply inferior to ours. The physical culture of our poorly nourished youth is superior to that of those rosy-cheeked, chubby white guys.\u201d<\/p>\n Long before the intervention, matches had been played between local teams and crews of American ships that docked on the coasts of the country. It was precisely during one of them, held on September 20, 1914 between Nuevo Club and the sailors of the US Navy cruiser\u00a0 Washington, that Dominican baseball player Indio Bravo (Enrique Hern\u00e1ndez) pitched a no-hitter, a first in the history of Dominican baseball, striking out 21 players and allowing only one, by mistake, to reach first base.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The value of the Dominican players soon had to be recognized. A national team for the first time travelled to play abroad in 1922. It was Licey, which, reinforced with players from other teams and under the name of \u201cEstrellas Dominicanas,\u201d played in Puerto Rico and won 6 out of 11 matches in the island. Due to their brilliant game, players began to be hired by teams from the neighboring countries a year later. The first was the pitcher of Licey, Baldomero Ure\u00f1a (Mero), who was signed by the Ponce team of Puerto Rico. He is immediately followed by several others, who were also hired to play in Puerto Rico: Nin\u00edn, Ernesto S\u00e1nchez, Mateo de la Rosa, Guagua Vargas, Fellito Guerra and the famous Tetelo Vargas. The latter was just 17 years old and was hired by the Humacao Stars. It is worth adding that, in 1925, Baldomero Ure\u00f1a (Mero) became the first Dominican to be hired to play for an American team, the Allentown.<\/p>\n The participation of national players in foreign leagues intensified in the next few years, as well as the presence of foreign baseball players in the local leagues. The national championship of 1929 is especially remembered as the \u201cluxury championship,\u201d due to the high number of imported players (from Cuba and Puerto Rico) who were paid very high salaries. The participation of Dominicans was minimal, to the point that it was said that the Escogido team, for example, \u201cwas a Cuban team reinforced with wonderful Tetelo Vargas.\u201d The spending was so extreme for the country\u2019s economy that during the following seven years, that is, until 1936, the National Series were not held again. Therefore, many of those who were professional players at that time had to go play in Venezuela, Puerto Rico and the United States. The Licey, Escogido, and Sandino (emerged in 1928) teams of Santiago, which the press in Santo Domingo called \u201clas Aguilas Cibae\u00f1as,\u201d faced each other during that last season of 1920.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The first period of the Trujillo dictatorship was very poor for professional baseball. The economic aftermath of the luxury championship of 1929 and of Cyclone San Zen\u00f3n that destroyed the country and the baseball stadiums of the capital (Gimnasio Escolar and La Primavera Tracrace), affected the performance of the teams. Even so, Trujillo immediately added this sport activity to his tools of power, manipulation and personal glorification, both locally and internationally.<\/p>\n In this sense, one of his first actions was to put together the General Trujillo team, which embarked on a tour of Latin America that began in 1931. Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Nicaragua and Mexico were the countries that were paid a visit as part of a tour that had to be extended more than was necessary. Because of a scam, the group ran out of money to return back home when they had originally planned. Two of the players (called Nin\u00edn and Titico) had to work in Cartagena to pay for the return tickets.<\/p>\n All the national championships that were celebrated during the period of the tyranny were named using some direct reference to Trujillo and his family. Thus, we have that the 1936 team, with which the series is re-established, was called \u201cCertamen Mayor Trujillo\u201d (Trujillo Mighty Contest) and competed in the Julia Molina Cup; in 1937, \u201cReelecci\u00f3n Presidente Trujillo\u201d (President Trujillo Re-election); \u201cCampeonato Era de Trujillo\u201d (Trujillo Era Championship) (1951); \u201cPro Elecci\u00f3n del General H\u00e9ctor B. Trujillo Molina\u201d (Pro Election of General H\u00e9ctor B. Trujillo Molina) (1952); \u201cLeonidas Radhames\u201d (1953); \u201cCampeonato Benefactor\u201d (Benefactor Championship) (1954); \u201cCampeonato Padre de la Patria\u201d (Father of the Homeland Championship) (1955-1956); \u201cCampeonato Reelecci\u00f3n Presidente Trujillo\u201d (President Trujillo Re-election Championship) (1956-1957); \u201cCampeonato Leonidas Radham\u00e9s\u201d (Leonidas Radhames Championship) (1957-1958); \u201cCampeonato 24 de Octubre,\u201d Trujillo was born on October 24, 1891, (1959-1960).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The national championship of 1937 became famous because of the quantity and the quality of the hired foreign players and the amount of money it cost. Since the trophy of the previous season (1936) had gone to the Estrellas Orientales team of San Pedro de Macor\u00eds, Trujillo unified the teams of the capital city and created the \u201cDragones de Ciudad Trujillo\u201d (March 4, 1937), which was endowed with the best foreign reinforcement players he could get.<\/p>\n The slogan was to win at any cost; therefore, no expense was spared. This and the other contender teams incorporated stellar players of the Negro American League of the US and Cuba, among which are worth mentioning Statchel Paige, George Scales, Mart\u00edn Dihigo, Clyde Spearman, David Thomas, L\u00e1zaro Salazar, Santos Amaro, \u201cCoca\u00edna\u201d Garc\u00eda, Ram\u00f3n Braga\u00f1a, William Perkins, Silvio Garc\u00eda, Rodolfo Fern\u00e1ndez, Chester Brewer, Ernest Carter, Josh Gibson, Harry Williams, Leroy Madlock, James Bell, Sammy Bankhead and Eustaquio Guti\u00e9rrez (Cuban referee).<\/p>\n The average salary of these imported players was $150 pesos a month \u2013 the Dominicans only made 24 pesos a month \u2013 but payments were much higher. Mart\u00edn Dihigo and Josh Gibson were paid $2,500 pesos for five weeks of play, at the rate of two games per week; while eight players cost US$30,000 to the Dragones Ciudad Trujillo. As Joseph Arbena, Ph.D in History, points out, one of the consequences of this type of measures taken and encouraged by the Dictatorship was to convert the Dominican Republic, before any other country (including the United States), into the place where baseball players got together and played, whereas in their own countries they were segregated- white, black, mulatto, mestizo, Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, North American.<\/p>\n The search for baseball players for the championship of 1937 caused a scandal in the United States and a diplomatic \u201cimpasse\u201d between the two countries: Because the salaries offered were higher than in the neighboring nation, the players did not hesitate much in accepting, which caused the leaders of the Pittsburg Crawfords and Homestead Grays to accuse a Dominican scout and the Dominican consul who accompanied him of attempted theft of their players, putting them both in prison. The Dominican government and its Foreign Affairs Office had to intervene, setting them free after paying a US$500 bail.<\/p>\n In turn, the North American players who decided to come to the Dominican Republic were expelled from the Negro Baseball League for having abandoned their teams. Statchel Paige, one of the expelled players, created his own team called Trujillo All-Stars, winning the Denver Post tournament.<\/p>\n In spite of the players he had at his disposal, it was not without much difficulty that Dragones de Ciudad Trujillo managed to emerge victorious; the team\u2019s management brought in a voodoo priest from Haiti to \u201chelp\u201d it claim success.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The championship of 1937 represented a huge investment of economic resources, and again the country was left without professional baseball. For 14 years, until 1951. Hence, the subsequent period was known for the strengthening of amateur baseball. It is estimated that in 1944, between Saturday and Sunday, more than 15 games were held in the capital city, with a participation of around 30 teams and more than 350 players. In addition, two new spaces were opened to hold baseball matches, the Molinuelo Park (1943) and the Perla Antillana Racetrack, which included a \u201cplay\u201d (1944). All this activity resulted in the Dominican Republic winning the amateur baseball world championship in Colombia in 1948.<\/p>\n The members of one of those Santiago teams died in what is considered the biggest tragedy suffered by the Dominican sport. They were in route to their hometown by plane after playing two games in the city of Barahona. The aircraft crashed due to bad weather. 32 passengers died and, among them, 18 players.<\/p>\n The lethargy in terms of professional practice was not an impediment for our best players to continue to excel abroad, and for foreign players and teams to continue visiting our country. In fact, on February 29, 1948, the Dodgers of Brooklyn and the Royals of Montreal arrived in Santo Domingo to hold spring training sessions. Jackie Robinson, the star who had managed to move to the big leagues two years earlier and the first black man to attain such an achievement, was among them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Dominican Republic is a country with abundant training camps or academies supported by the main United States Big League teams, including the Yankees, the Atlanta Braves, the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Kansas Royals and the Hiroshima Toyo Carp, of the Japanese league.<\/p>\n Nowadays, all professional baseball teams of the Big Leagues have their academies in the Dominican Republic. You may find more details and information about them here: http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/dr\/academies.jsp<\/a><\/p>\n The Dominican Republic has become the main baseball training venue outside of the United States. Young Dominican, American, Mexican, Panamanian, Venezuelan, and Puerto Rican players prepare and compete in the Dominican Summer League (http:\/\/www.dominicansummerleague.com<\/a>), during which newcomers are chosen to travel to the United States for their possible incursion in one of the North American leagues.<\/p>\n For updated news, more information and other curious facts about Dominican baseball in the Big Leagues, please visit: http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/mlb\/features\/dr\/index.jsp<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tigres del Licey Aguilas Cibae\u00f1as Leones del Escogido Estrellas Orientales Azucareros del Este Gigantes del Cibao <\/p>\n It is the most important professional baseball tournament in Latin America, where national teams from the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela and Puerto Rico participate. It is said that this annual event was born in Cuba, in 1949. The Dominican Republic participates in it since 1970. The countries rotate each year the venue of the tournament.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Did you know?<\/strong> The Dominican Republic holds the record for the most championships won in the Caribbean Series (19, to 2016), with the Tigres del Licey team having the most crowns in the Dominican Republic, followed by the Aguilas Cibae\u00f1as and then the Leones del Escogido.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n For more information on the Caribbean Baseball Series, visit:\u00a0http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/mlb\/events\/winterleagues\/league.jsp?league=cse<\/a><\/span> <\/u><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Links of Interest: Sources: Baseball is the favorite sport of Dominicans, not only as a game or hobby but as part of their national pride and identity. Hundreds of players in the big and minor leagues were born in the Dominican Republic and are a permanent source of pride for Dominicans, who celebrate them with great honor and excitement … Continue reading “Dominican Baseball”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page-beisbol.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7391","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7391"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10020,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7391\/revisions\/10020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}History of Baseball in the DR<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Baseball Excitement<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Baseball and the American Intervention<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Internationalization of Dominican Baseball<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Trujillo and Baseball<\/h2>\n
The 1937 Championship<\/h2>\n
Amateur Baseball During the Dictatorship<\/h2>\n
Academies<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Dominican Baseball Teams<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\n<\/strong>Fundado en 1907
\nQuisqueya Stadium
\nTel: (809) 566-3261, (809) 567-3090
\nhttp:\/\/www.licey.com<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Established in 1937
\nCibao Stadium
\nTel: (809) 575-4310, (809) 575-1810, (809) 575-8250
\nhttp:\/\/aguilas.lidom.com\/home\/<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Established in 1921
\nQuisqueya Stadium
\nTel: (809) 565-1910
\nhttp:\/\/www.escogido.com
\n<\/a>http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/milb\/stats\/roster.jsp?sid=l132&t=t_ros&cid=671<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Established in 1911
\nTetelo Vargas Stadium
\nTel: (809) 529-3618
\nhttp:\/\/www.estrellasorientales.com.do\/<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Established in 1983
\nFrancisco Micheli Stadium
\nTel: (809) 556-6188, (809) 556-6189
\nhttp:\/\/lostorosdeleste.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Established in 1997
\nJulian Javier Stadium
\nTel: (809) 566-4882, (809) 588-8882, (809) 588-8854
\nhttp:\/\/gigantessfm.com\/<\/a><\/p>\nCaribbean Baseball Series<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\n<\/strong>Professional Baseball Team of the Dominican Republic (LIDOM): www.lidom.com<\/a>
\nTigres del Licey: http:\/\/licey.com<\/a>
\n\u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as: www.aguilas.com.do<\/a>
\nLeones del Escogido: www.escogido.com
\n<\/a>Estrellas Orientales: http:\/\/www.estrellasorientales.com.do
\n<\/a>Gigantes del Cibao: http:\/\/gigantessfm.com
\n<\/a>Toros del Este: http:\/\/lostorosdeleste.com
\n<\/a>Major Baseball League: http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/home
\n<\/a>Caribbean Baseball Hall of Fame: http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/bullpen\/Caribbean_Baseball_Hall_of_Fame
\n<\/a>Stories of the Caribbean Series: http:\/\/latinobaseball.com\/?option=com_content&view=article&id=140&Itemid=6<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/em>B\u00e9isbol en Rep\u00fablica Dominicana: Cr\u00f3nica de una pasi\u00f3n, Orlando Inoa and H\u00e9ctor J. Cruz, Verizon, 2004.<\/span>
\nProfessional Baseball League of the Dominican Republic (LIDOM)<\/span>
\nVarious newspapers<\/span>
\nMajor League Baseball (MLB)<\/span>
\nLo Dominicano | All Things Dominican. GFDD, 2015.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"