DominicanBaseball's Role:In one of the world's poorest countries, it is the Golden Age of baseball. Nearly every dusty street in the Dominican Republic is filled with kids playing with makeshift milk-carton gloves, bottle-cap balls, and sticks for bats. Driven by the love of the game, and hoping to escape the country’s extreme poverty, an entire generation of Dominican children dream of being peloteros.
ABOUT ME
This profile is brought to you, world, by the filmmakers of “Live to Play, Play to Live,” a documentary about baseball in the Dominican Republic.
ABOUT ME
This profile is brought to you, world, by the filmmakers of “Live to Play, Play to Live,” a documentary about baseball in the Dominican Republic.