The Significant Rise in the Number of Latino players in Major League Baseball
In the 2020 season, 108 Major League Baseball players originated from countries situated out of the United States. The overseas players had a participatory position on an opening day. Comparing the current figures from those in 1960, there is a 28% increase. With this kind of trajectory, it is evident that the growth is picking […]
2019 CARIBBEAN WORLD SERIES! Something to watch!
By Ismael Nunez Sure everyone knew for sure New England Patriots were going win their 6th Super Bowl, to add from what people saw, pieces written online the half-time show wasn’t all that. Yet for many Latin Americans like myself there’s the CARIBBEAN WORLD SERIES 2019 ESPN reported, “January 24th 2019 due to the political unrest […]
It was Super Bowl Sunday, yet there was The Caribbean World Series
BY ISMAEL NUNEZ While United States of America watched the Super Bowl 51, watched the 1 million dollar commercials, Lady Gaga’s brilliant performance, and saw most likely the one of the greatest comebacks in team sports with New England Patriots Defeating the Atlanta Falcons 34-28. Latin America watched the annual Caribbean World Series. […]
INTERVIEW WITH BASEBALL WRITER LOU HERNANDEZ
by Ismael Nunez Lou Hernandez is a member of the Society of American Baseball Research and a life-long baseball fan. He’s written two Baseball Books on Latin America Memories of Winter Ball: Interviews with Players in the Latin American Winter Leagues of the 1950s . The Rise of the Latin American Baseball Leagues, 1947-1961: Cuba, the […]
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 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: 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: 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: 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 […]
Reflections on the Dodgers and Latin American Players
The Cincinnati Reds signed Aroldis Chapman. The Toronto Blue Jays signed Adeiny Hechevarria and the Twins signed Miguel Angel Sano. All three of those clubs have payrolls, and markets, that are exponentially smaller than that of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Sure, the Dodgers were very recently hamstrung by financial constrictions due to the very public […]
The Fix Is In
DRSEA INFORMER Volume III, Issue 5: A Publication For Your Reading Enjoyment Major League Baseball knocked one out of the park with its recent selection of Sandy Alderson to head a reform movement in baseball in the Dominican Republic. Alderson headed a task force appointed by Commissioner Bud Selig to study problems affecting baseball here, […]
DRSEA INFORMER: Home Court Advantage
Volume III, Issue 2 By Charles Farrell La Ventaja De Campo (Home Court Advantage) In what looks like a continuing trend, a court in the Dominican Republic has ordered the New York Yankees to pay more than $750,000USD to Carlos Rios, their former director of Latin American scouting, after ruling that his firing was unlawful. […]
