Making A Difference In The Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic Sports & Education Academy will holds its third annual“Making A Difference In The Dominican Republic” June 28 at 6 p.m. at the 809 Club, 112 Dyckman Street, New York, NY. The event will include a special tribute to the Pittsburgh Pirates for the team’s outstanding and sustained commitment to the advancement of Dominicans and […]

DRSEA Opening Day

DRSEA INFORMER Volume VI, Issue 1: A Publication For Your Reading Enjoyment  The Dominican Republic Sports & Education Academy welcomed its inaugural students in January in the city that has produced many of the Dominican Republic’s most famous baseball stars.   “The dream has become reality,” said Harold Mendez, co-founder of the DRSEA, whose mission […]

Citizen Canó

This article comes to us via… DRSEA INFORMER Volume V, Issue 4: A Publication For Your Reading Enjoyment 2012 is turning out to be a banner year for New York Yankee star Robinson Canó, who recently became a U.S. citizen. The 30-year-old second baseman, who grew up in the Dominican Republic but lived in New […]

From Concept To Reality

This article comes to us via… DRSEA INFORMER Volume V, Issue 4: A Publication For Your Reading Enjoyment The Dominican Republic Sports & Education Academy is now scheduled to open in January 2013, bringing the dream to reality.   It has taken a lot of effort, an enormous amount of blood, sweat and tears, and […]

Knucking Down

This article comes to us via…DRSEA INFORMER Volume V, Issue 4: A Publication For Your Reading Enjoyment For the third year in a row, I have been fortunate enough to get an invitation to the Dominican Global Film Festival, which annually presents a selection of international films intended to promote and encourage discussion and understanding […]

Released Dominican Players Offered Educational Opportunity

Volume V, Issue 3: A Publication For Your Reading Enjoyment  Major League Baseball has announced it will provide released Minor League players from the Dominican Republic an opportunity to enroll in educational programs through its new Educational Initiative Program for Latin America.   Major League Baseball signed an agreement to create and support an educational […]

Between “Sugar” and “Pelotero”….. lies the truth

Volume V, Issue 3: A Publication For Your Reading Enjoyment I finally got a chance to see “BALLPLAYER: Pelotero,” the controversial documentary that bills itself as a gritty look inside the world of baseball in the Dominican Republic.   As someone who first documented that world a dozen years ago, and presented a report to […]

DRSEA To Hold Special Tribute To Major League Baseball Executive Lou Melendez

The Dominican Republic Sports & Education Academy will holds it second annual “Making A Difference In The Dominican Republic” on June 29 at 6  p.m. at the 809 Club, 112 Dyckman Street, New York, NY. The event will include a special tribute to Lou Melendez, a senior executive with Major League Baseball, who is retiring […]

DRSEA: Making a Difference in the Dominican Republic

DRSEA and FIU College of Law Sports & Entertainment Law Society (SELS) Present Special Screening of “El Play” Documentary on Dominican Baseball Florida International University College of Law April 19, 2012 3 pm The Dominican Republic Sports & Education Academy (DRSEA) will present a special screening of “El Play,” a documentary on Dominican baseball on […]

DRSEA INFORMER: Special Edition

Rafael Pérez, Director of Dominican Operations for Major League Baseball, has developed a reputation over the years for his keen eye and protective nature with regards to young baseball prospects in the Dominican Republic. Pérez revealed another side of himself recently when he sat down to read aloud to a group of Dominican grade schoolers, quickly gaining their rapt […]

DRSEA INFORMER: Volume V, Issue 1

The Venezuelan Connection – The Dominican Republic is second only to the United States in delivering players to Major League Baseball, but coming in third – and gaining – is Venezuela.  The dynamics of Venezuelan baseball are shifting, increasing the importance of the Dominican Republic in the development of Latin American players.   Last season, […]

DRSEA INFORMER: A Draft In MLB Future

Volume IV, Issue 9: A Publication For Your Reading Enjoyment Major League Baseball’s new collective bargaining agreement, and its potential impact on international baseball, has caused quite a stir in the Dominican Republic as many fear it could spell the beginning of the end for the current development system. Under the terms of the new […]

DRSEA INFORMER: Volume IV, Issue 8

What’s In A Name?   I used to chuckle when my mother would sometime look at me quizzically and ask, “When were you born?” My reply was generally, “You were there, weren’t you?”   But as I continue to ponder the ongoing dilemma that Major League Baseball faces in the Dominican Republic concerning age and […]

DRSEA INFORMER: The Name Game & Hit Parade

Volume IV, Issue 7: A Publication For Your Reading Enjoyment The strange case of the Florida Marlins Leo Núñez – who is actually Juan Carlos Oviedo – may be just the tip of the iceberg if what some baseball insiders are telling the INFORMER is true, following the revelation that the Dominican Republic pitcher played […]

Big Leagues Banking on Dominican Prospects

DRSEA INFORMER  Volume IV, Issue 6: A Publication For Your Reading Enjoyment The accelerated signings of Dominican baseball prospects, coupled with a record signing bonus by the Texas Rangers, appears to be an indication that Major League Baseball teams have increasing faith that efforts to curb age and identity fraud in the Dominican Republic are […]

DRSEA INFORMER: Education Program And Documentary

Volume IV, Issue 5: A Publication For Your Reading Enjoyment DRSEA Education Program Launched – The Arias & Goodman Academy, one of the premiere baseball development programs in the Dominican Republic, has launched a pilot project developed by the Dominican Republic Sports & Education Academy to provide education for its prospects.   “Make no mistake […]

Arias & Goodman Academy Launch Education Program for Prospects

MEDIA RELEASE JUNE 30, 2011 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Arias & Goodman – 908–272-6900 DRSEA –  215-888-9608 ARIAS & GOODMAN ACADEMY LAUNCH EDUCATION PROGRAM FOR PROSPECTS   SAN PEDRO DE MACORIS, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC – The Arias & Goodman Academy, one of the premiere baseball development programs in the Dominican Republic, has launched a pilot project […]

DRSEA Fundraiser To Be Co-Chaired By Reds Legends Perez & Rose

NEW YORK, NY – Cincinnati Reds legends Tony Perez and Pete Rose have been tabbed as honorary co-chairs of a fundraiser for the Dominican Republic Sports & Education (DRSEA), June 21 at 7 p.m. at the 809 Lounge, 112 Dyckman St., New York, NY. The event will include a panel discussion on Dominican baseball and […]

DRSEA Informer

Volume IV, Issue 4: A Publication For Your Reading Enjoyment   Show Me The Money The baseball industry is spending more money in the Dominican Republic than I previously believed, according to the latest economic impact study by Major League Baseball. At an astounding $126,326,008, the annual expenditures are over $25 million more than I […]

DRSEA INFORMER: A Blast From My Past

Taken from: Volume IV, Issue 2: A Publication For Your Reading Enjoyment For the second year in a row, I was recently honored to attend the induction ceremonies at the Latino Baseball Hall of Fame in La Romana.  It was also an opportunity to reunite with one of the inductees, Luis Tiant, who I worked with 20 […]

DRSEA INFORMER: Forum Has Much At Stake

Taken From: Volume IV, Issue 2: A Publication For Your Reading Enjoyment Major League Baseball and FUNGLODE (Fundación Global de Democracia y Desarrollo) are holding a symposium in the near future entitled “Goals and Challenges of MLB in the Dominican Republic,” to include people they believe have a vested interest in baseball in the Dominican Republic.  And I […]

DRSEA INFORMER: Former Baseball Exec Admits Taking Kickbacks

Taken from: Volume IV, Issue 2: A Publication For Your Reading Enjoyment One-time high-ranking Chicago White Sox executive David Wilder recently pleaded guilty to federalfraud charges that he solicited hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks from poor Dominican prospects hoping to make it in the big leagues. “I understand what I have done,” Wilder said […]

DRSEA INFORMER: MLB Shows Class

Taken from: Volume IV, Issue 2: A Publication For Your Reading Enjoyment Major League Baseball has taken important steps towards providing education for prospects in baseball academies in the Dominican Republic. The initiative was actually formulated and approved last fall and parts of the plan are expected to be put into effect soon, according to Sandy […]

Major League Baseball Scores

Volume IV, Issue 1: A Publication For Your Reading Enjoyment Major League Baseball scored a significant victory recently when Dominican authorities arrested a prominent MLB scout and charged him with fraud and document forgery in connection with young baseball prospects. Victor Baez was regarded as one of the most successful Dominican scouts and ran his […]

DRSEA INFORMER: For The Love Of Money

Volume III, Issue 15: A Publication For Your Reading Enjoyment It has been said that when morality confronts profit, rarely willmorality triumph. And with profit being the main motive behind the proliferation of independent academies dedicated to developing and selling Dominican baseball talent, morality and fair play are likely to strike out. That has been my […]

DRSEA INFORMER: Change Up

Volume III, Issue 14: A Publication For Your Reading Enjoyment My heart dropped like a Pedro Martinez sinker when I heard that the New York Mets were courting Sandy Alderman, baseball’s super repairman, to replace ousted general manager Omar Minaya.  After all, he had been heading the baseball reform movement in the Dominican Republic and included […]

DRSEA INFORMER: The Man With The Plan, Sandy Alderson

Volume III, Issue 12: A Publication For Your Reading Enjoyment Contrary to what some might believe, Sandy Alderson, Major League Baseball´s emissary to the Dominican Republic, does not have horns sprouting from his head. I met recently with the reform czar and came away with the impression that – while Alderson still faces an uphill […]

Lost In Translation: DRSEA INFORMER

Volume III, Issue 11: A Publication For Your Reading Enjoyment Do this simple experiment.  Copy a couple of paragraphs from this newsletter and paste into any online translation website (I use Yahoo! Babel Fish) and translate into Spanish.  Now take the Spanish translation and translate back into English.  Not quite what was originally written, is […]

DRSEA INFORMER: Dominican Gold Rush

Volume III, Issue 10: A Publication For Your Reading Enjoyment The stampede for baseball talent in the Dominican Republic never ceases to amaze me as Major League Baseball and its teams spend $100 million a year to identify and develop talent where there is 98 percent collateral damage. It is like planting 100 apples trees, […]

DRSEA INFORMER: Volume III, Issue 8

High Noon In Santo Domingo – Remember those great Westerns where the townspeople bring in a hired gun – even pinning a badge to his chest – to clean up their lawless society? Sandy Alderson, baseball’s new sheriff in the Dominican Republic, has taken recent steps to address the corruption that has undermined the integrity […]

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