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The promise and peril of the Dominican baseball pipeline

  • Written by Rob Ruck, Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh
Boys practice baseball at a park in San Antonio de Guerra, a small municipality in the Dominican Republic.Reuters/Ricardo Rojas

Latinos will comprise about 30 percent of Major League Baseball rosters on Opening Day, in large part because MLB has systematized its recruiting and developmental programs in the Caribbean over the last 25 years.

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