10 May 2013

We were talking with a Dominican Dude the other day and he told us of the following ball teams, and most of the remaining ones.... who have schools down here in the Dominican Republic to find, teach, train, and nurture ball players from this country.  They go out and watch the teams from the cities throughout the country, and select those who have talents.  They sort of "draft" them and ask them if they would like to come to their major league training schools, universities.

They conduct classes, teach skills, observe talents, and search for those players who would "fit" on their teams.  I am sure that not many make it, but the major league teams figure it is worth the money to do so, to find those like Alex Rodriguez, Sammy  Sosa, and so many others who  have started out in this country.

The youth feel this is the way to "make it", to be recruited by one of these teams, show them how good they are, and it will be their ticket out of this country, into the land of milk and honey, the United States and earn millions of dollars.   That is why there are many ball diamonds in every city, and many, many fighting to  play on those city teams.