Why so many baseball players are Dominican

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Baseball has a long history in the United States, but it also has strong roots in the Caribbean and Latin America, particularly in the Dominican Republic. Cubans were the first to bring the game from the US to their country in the 19th century, and later, wealthy Cubans introduced it to the Dominican Republic. Over the following decades, the sport became deeply ingrained in Dominican culture, while in the United States, baseball evolved into a multi-million dollar industry.
Eventually, the United States began to seek out Cuban baseball talent. But when diplomatic relations between the two countries deteriorated, the Dominican Republic emerged as the primary focus of Major League Baseball's talent pipeline.
As Dominicans demonstrated their skill and success as baseball players, the MLB started establishing academies in the Dominican Republic, which were affiliated with MLB teams in the United States. This system facilitated the influx of numerous talented Dominican players into MLB teams. Currently, Dominicans dominate Major League Baseball in the United States, making up more than 10 percent of all players in the league. They significantly outnumber players from other foreign-born countries.
To gain a deeper understanding of how baseball spread throughout the Dominican Republic and why the island produces so many MLB players, watch the latest episode of Vox Atlas.
Sources:
Dominican Baseball: New Pride, Old Prejudice by Alan Klein
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Sugarball: The American Game, the Dominican Dream by Alan Klein
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Pitching Democracy: Baseball and Politics in the Dominican Republic by April Yoder
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Playing America’s Game: Baseball, Latinos and the Color Line by Adrian Burgos
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Further reading/watching:
MLB’s International Draft would Affect Dominican Republic
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‘A failed system’: A corrupt process exploits Dominican baseball prospects. Is an international draft really the answer?
theathletic.co...
Inside Baseball’s Dominican Sweatshop System
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Baseball Is A Field Of Dreams - And Dashed Hopes - For Dominicans
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MLB’s neo colonial practices in the Dominican Republic Academy system
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@lazywallstreetnews7234 Год назад

I'm Puerto Rican and have been lucky enough to go and play baseball in the DR and watch a winter ball game there too. The environment was electric! This was back in the day when Miguel Tejada had won AL MVP in Oakland, so we're talking almost 25 years ago. But the fans were amazing, so into the game, knew every player's name, the women were into it, I mean it was amazing I'd never seen anything like it. The closest thing I can compare it to is going to a soccer game in Brazil.

@DCampusano1 Год назад

Facts

@ricardogarcia6453 Год назад

This is a real comment that add value to the conversation

@Marjorie321 Год назад

Miguel tejada won the MVP in 2002. But you are right, l used to know the names of each player of each team.

@lazywallstreetnews7234 Год назад

@@Marjorie321 that sounds about right to me, it was around that year or maybe the year after we saw him. I still remember he hit a double to the CF-RF gap that sounded like a firecracker when he made contact. Got lucky enough to see Vladimir Guerrero Sr. when he was still young with the Montreal Expos too. That guy could hit anything, never seen anything like it either before or since

@noeltorres9175 7 месяцев назад

🇵🇷👍

@hendrx Год назад

I grew up in the Dominican Republic and something particular about the country is that baseball is so far integrated into the culture that you just "grow into it". Playing baseball as a kid was just like eating and breathing to me. Something else that's particular is the fact that women like the sport as well. I've yet to find a date that doesn't watch baseball one way or another.

@jesusvinamoreno5080 Год назад

Don't forget about vitilla.

@busyrand Год назад

Wow... I'd love to have a girlfriend who was into Baseball... I can't imagine that...

@TheKNIGHTELFMOHAWK Год назад

I feel like it’s the same for Japan. Like baseball is huge in Japan

@clarkesmith. Год назад

@@TheKNIGHTELFMOHAWK But in Japan there's other sports where they thrive in as well, and have a huge following. Soccer is huge there, sumo is huge there, volleyball is huge there. It feels like DRC only has baseball.

@gueits8586 Год назад

Dominicans born in the states are big on baseball too. My mother in law is Dominican and a RBI baseball coach in NJ. Most players are Dominican, and they even fly kids from DR to play with and against.

@hectormorales8471 Год назад

This is amazing! As a Dominican kid who grew up playing baseball in the DR I appreciate you guys doing this. To put it simply our parents care more about us doing well on the baseball field than at school. It’s part of our culture and probably one of the first thing you do as a kid after learning how to stand on your feet.

@JD-ny3vz Год назад

It's like basketball and football in America depending on where you live for Black Americans.

@gueits8586 Год назад

I went to DR back in 2014. As the plane landed, I looked out the window and saw nothing but baseball fields.😂

@danmarkespejo5498 Год назад

Literally

@hendrx Год назад

😂😂 I was thinking about that as well. Must be fun asf to have the stadium be available to everybody

@FIXTREME Год назад

Sounds like heaven

@ec3840 11 месяцев назад

😂

@drkid4l220 9 месяцев назад

I can confirm that🤣🤣

@montantico Год назад

Great job, great video. As a Dominican, and as a fan of the sport, thanks for showcasing our country. There is much more to talk about, but this video is part of the spark of those conversations.

@dcrijo Год назад

For a lot of Dominican families, its a way out of poverty & a way to support their extended family & communities. You're born into it and the love for the game runs in the family for decades. The way players train from the moment they can walk is amazing...which produces these amazing athletes into the pros.

@cam-asherbond5316 Год назад

Julio Rodriguez is arguably the most important player to join the Seattle Mariners since Ichiro did from Japan, 23 years ago. Julio has a position of power and respect as one of the most exciting young stars in baseball -I hope he'll join in the effort for fair treatment and pay to his Dominican brothers.

@aidanlawrnce5451 Год назад

He definitely will. I mean he bought his hometowns first ambulances

@rokrV Год назад

Julio!!! should’ve made this cut, cmon! Superstar. GO M’s

@tke7749 Год назад

a big reason why there is so many DR players is because how cheap they can pay them.. fair pay = less DR players, sorry to say

@matttomo15 Год назад

@@tke7749 nah, these owners bring in millions in revenue with every game that's played. they can DEFINITELY afford to pay the Dominican players fairly. fair pay = less yacht parties for the owners. that's it. they're just greedy.

@NYCHeavyHitz212 Год назад

@@matttomo15obody said the owners “can’t” pay them, though. Everything is competitive, so if they can invest cheaper for a greater return, that’ll always be the case whether we like it or not. It’s easy to exploit humans in dire situations.(like offering them anything that sounds life changing to the desperate)

@Fromros Год назад

I grew up in DR, and raise in the Heights, my brother was born in DR and play minor league for the Marlins, all I want is for him to earn what he deserve for all the hard work and training they do to be the best at the sport

@cenq9093 Год назад

I love that my latino people get the respect and acknowledge they deserve. I’m Mexican and we also love baseball in our country. But it is true that Cubans,and Dominicans are on another level when it comes to baseball.

@AlejandroDaniel531 11 месяцев назад

No hablamos latín y no somo del Lacio Italia, así que no somos latinos y no necesitamos la aprobación estadounidense para ser alguien.

@vj7994 11 месяцев назад

@@AlejandroDaniel531???hablas español que es una lengua romance así que eres latino.

@mannyrodriguez5453 10 месяцев назад

@@vj7994 El nombre Latin o Latino en el nuevo mundo de America fue dado por el frances Napoleon y Michel Chavelier que llego a America del sur y se encontro con los europeos yl se sentia que estaba en europa, el fue el primero de llamar la parte del Caribe, Centro y Sur, Latino America. Aunque el espanol esta conciderado un lenguaje romance no significa que el que habla espanol es considerado Latino, para nada, somos hispanos de habla espanol y de de varias razas. El verdadero latino existe solo en ADN en Italia y mayorment el Romano de Roma.

@Stoicsaiyan 8 месяцев назад

@@mannyrodriguez5453no importa nosotros hablamos un idioma de romance. Un idioma derivado por el latín de los romanos

@Jaxck77 Год назад

Kind of shocking you didn’t talk about the biggest issue with the academy system. It’s treated as a replacement for school, not just higher education like in the US but grade school too. The only reason the system works is because DR is so poor that it’s better to get an education in baseball than anything academic. That’s the real tragedy of the situation. EDIT: “so poor” includes a lot of the US too guys. It’s the same relationship that DR has with baseball as Mississippi & Alabama have with football. The baseball academy system is a damnation of the state of education across North & Central America, not an opportunity to express the superiority of the US. If anything the state of American sports shows just how bad life & opportunity really is stateside.

@rebecca5303 Год назад

Interesting 🤔

@2552legoboy Год назад

vox act like they really know it all and leave out crucial stuff classic

@kielamaral1909 Год назад

I mean every country except for the US and Canada treat there sports like that. Soccer/football, eu basketball and cricket is the same

@shoutucker3726 Год назад

Americans.

@dosantosbojan Год назад

D.R. so poor? Don't even look to Haiti, the country Next to D.R...

@Kxji Год назад

Baseball is a lifestyle in DR, believe or not I'm half Japanese and half Dominican that's all we did as kids.

@DekaiDekaiDekai 9 месяцев назад

Bro, if you have that mixture and you aren't into Baseball, I'm pretty sure the fabric of time itself would rip.

@Kxji 9 месяцев назад

Well I played for about 2 years when I was a kid and got bored of it, last time I watched baseball was in 2013 when the Red Sox won@@DekaiDekaiDekai

@JuanBernardoContrerasCastillo Месяц назад

@@DekaiDekaiDekaijajaja

@ricardogerman2265 Год назад

Thank you Vox for this beautiful and well-documented video, as a Dominican American living in the USA, I played baseball as a young kid, I feel very proud of what Dominicans bring to the table to the MLB business.

@IsaacPel Год назад

"This is the Major Leagues Rafi, we are all from the Dominican Republic."

@octaviousharper3873 Год назад

😂 A man of culture I see.

@makatron Год назад

Just watch out for the celebration slapassss

@zezeison 5 месяцев назад

😂😂😂😂😂

@frankalmanzar3492 Год назад

This came out at a perfect time because the home run derby last night was Cuban players vs Dominican players. A Dominican won, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. 🇩🇴

@TrojanLube69 Год назад

Plátano power 💪🏼

@uliseshernandez3163 Год назад

Correction: Dominican Vs Mexican player, ✅

@yungxancash1459 Год назад

@@uliseshernandez3163Randy was born in Cuba. He escaped to Mexico and became a citizen because he enjoyed it there and they treated him well, but he’s Cuban. Born in Cuba

@uliseshernandez3163 Год назад

He is a Mexican national treasure

@uliseshernandez3163 Год назад

Hey did you guys know Mexico was in the final four on the baseball world championship beating out other countries like the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico

@stephenmiller2337 Год назад

So happy that Epy Guerrero got his due. He signed so many great Dominican Blue Jays players. The Jays had 3 starting Dominican players in 1985, and set a record for having 6 starting Dominican players in 2013. Tony Fernandez, one of the greatest shortstops of all time, was signed by Epy Guerrero.

@ecx007 Год назад

As a Dominican, I say the MLB and American People Always Welcome in DR :) ; Baseball is our passion

@ykJvacano Год назад

Some of them don’t like us so don’t bother inviting

@davidgodoy826 Год назад

We went to Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 for a mission trip and WOW they love baseball like Argentina 🇦🇷 loves soccer ⚽️…. Kids play baseball there all day everyday they have a passion for the sport. Kids play in all conditions there. Now I see why they are so good they love❤baseball

@Kikusin22 9 месяцев назад

República Dominicana es un paraíso hermoso, vi un libro de fotografías en Amazon sobre este país lleno de preciosas fotos!

@JorgeRodriguez-ih8ub Год назад

As a Dominican baseball fan who knew all these Information, this video is an excellent recopilation, it can even be shown in schools if someone adds subtitles

@JSL-ru1cq Год назад

I would like to see them explain and talk about the history of baseball for the other mayor Latino Country's in baseball like Puerto Rico and Venezuela

@jodh-cx1zd Год назад

@jacaranda4689 9 месяцев назад

Luego

@Tonyconstanza 9 месяцев назад

Venezuela would be interesting

@Polo9794 Год назад

That was a great video! I'd be curious to know also how the sport made it to Japan and became so big.

@chagrined4days Год назад

Read "You gotta have wa" by Robert Whiting

@pramanabudiman9761 Год назад

It's a easy explaination. Baseball was introduced to Japan in 1872 by American english professor named Horace Wilson at Kaisel Academy. This was during meiji period where the Japan government appointed American foreigners to help modernization. America's baseball culture got spread to Japan and became popular.

@alistairlee7604 Год назад

Even in South Korea, baseball is as popular as soccer there drawing thousands and thousands of fans.

@Ramboost007 Год назад

The 30 for 30 podcast of the the ESPN show has a great episode on how Japanese players finally got a shot in the MLB after decades of being shackled by the gatekeeping contracts of the Japanese league. The interesting part is you'd expect the episode to highlight Ichiro, but the main character of their story is Hideo Nomo

@ianhomerpura8937 Год назад

Now I am curious as well why it wasn't the case in the Philippines. Here, basketball and boxing became way more popular than baseball starting in the 1970s.

@jimmygomtor Год назад

In spanish we usually call baseball “El Rey de los Deportes”, “The King of Sports”. The legend says spanish once asked cubans why didn’t the like fútbol, if it was “The sport of the king”, to what the cubans answered “Mi hermano, fútbol might be the sport of the king, but baseball is The King of Sports”. Or so the legend says…

@neyou6940 Год назад

No one call baseball the king of sports, liar

@jimmygomtor Год назад

@@neyou6940 Are you mexican? I don't think so. Here it is commonly referred as it. So until you come to Mexico, shut up.

@arpitavora2369 Год назад

Thank you for connecting the dots of this incredibly interesting history! Great video!

@CaraMarie13 Год назад

When I moved to this country and started going to school, I remember being surprised that there were so many different sports that were offered. In DR, I only ever did baseball and running and the running was mostly for the baseball lol. I started playing baseball for as long as I remember before moving to the US. Till this day, I can still throw a mean curve ball

@doragon18 Год назад

Genial, two things I love, baseball and my culture :)

@realbaron5714 Год назад

We are proud of our players, baseball is the most popular sport in the country. Gracias a esos jugadores por poner nuestra bandera en alto 🇩🇴🇩🇴💪💪

@wilber2k06 Год назад

Some historical inaccuracies in this video. The ambassador of the United States, James Mark Sullivan (1873 - 1935), was the one that brought baseball to the Dominican Republic. The first game was played in Monte Cristi. Also, there's no way Cuban plantation owners relocated to DR because slavery was already outlawed there and the only few places that slavery still existed to name a few at the time (1860) was in the United States, Cuba, Puerto Rico, or Brazil.

@camilofuentespena7348 11 месяцев назад

Is so refreshing and so nice to watch your work guys, that even an unexpected topic can become super enjoyable.

@albertogarciab.2088 Год назад

Loved this episode! Is it possible to know more about the history of baseball in other Latin American countries like Colombia or Venezuela?

@eddiemonesti5671 Год назад

From the late 1800 hundreds when Cubans brought baseball to the Dominican republic to early 2000, baseball used to be a truly passionate sport for Dominicans, Growing up in the 90s even men with wife a kids working 6 days a week, Monday to Saturday 10 to 12 hours a day, Used to play baseball on Sunday. Playing like They were trying win a world series'ring. Now is more like a business.

@toneriggz Год назад

US army also brought baseball with them with they occupied DR in the early 1900s. Dominicans took to baseball and it eventually became an opportunity to get out of poverty. I’ve known and am related to a few Dominican baseball players. One made it, the rest only got as far as the minor leagues. The way basketball and football are popular in poor areas in the US, that’s baseball in DR. Basketball is the 2nd popular sport. There’s two good movies about the journey Dominican players have to make to get to the US. One is called Sugar and the other is a documentary called Pelotero.

@ulisesjorge Год назад

The Cubans brought it; did you even watch the video? Our oldest professional baseball team (Licey) was founded years before the Americans invaded.

@toneriggz Год назад

@@ulisesjorge Did you? She also mentions the US occupation.

@diddypablo2006 Год назад

@@toneriggz yes but you missed the point, the Cubans brought it way before.

@toneriggz Год назад

@@diddypablo2006 I didn’t miss any point. Hence why I used the word “also”. You missed “also”.

@ulisesjorge Год назад

@@toneriggz They didn't; how can they bring something that was already here? Because that's what you're implying with your comment, which doesn't make sense at all.

@ramonturbi8514 9 месяцев назад

Baseball in DR isn't only a sport is a feeling, we love Baseball

@laloma333 Год назад

Shoutout to Vox for the piece. Luis Aloma was my abuelo. An absolute baller on and off the field

@ricardodiazcollado813 Год назад

The second half of the century, Puerto Rico was the country that really picked up in terms of sending players to the majors. Dominican players have absolutely exploded since the 1990s however.

@PBH964 Год назад

Roberto Clemente

@noliturs Год назад

Get over it lloricua.

@1990Thunderbolt Год назад

Japan to baseball is like Brazil to football and Dominican Republic to baseball is like France to football. High end quality talent playing in the big leagues!

@noliturs Год назад

😂Without a doubt, the Dominican Republic is the Brazil of baseball, Japan could be Germany. The magic and joy of Dominican baseball, with all due respect, is above that of Japan.

@1990Thunderbolt Год назад

@@noliturs no the japanese baseball are like brazilian football. most wbc and world cup wins with high quality talents. the domincan republic are like france because they to have endless high quality talents all over baseball just like japan but the only difference is that japan has won more than the dom rep. as for the german's baseball quivalent, i'd say umm puerto rico? 🤷‍♂ usa is england, south korea is mexico and the rests are whatever....

@Tonyconstanza 9 месяцев назад

@@1990Thunderboltthe Japanese have never faced the Dominicans and the closest they got to that was losing to Puerto Rico in the semi final and PR advanced to face DR in the final. If the Japanese go head to head with the DR they would lose

@MEPEREZ8 9 месяцев назад

Because baseball is our favorite sport. We played for the love of the game.

@ryansheridan6845 Год назад

29 American teams + 1 Canadian

@ritabenkhalti8809 10 месяцев назад

What a beautifully made video. Thank you for sharing this information and the history of it.

@availablity3173 Год назад

As a baseball fan now I get it!! Anyway they are so talented

@redacted5035 Год назад

Cuba too😅

@availablity3173 Год назад

@@redacted5035 I know I know🤣 I meant everyone

@youmefull9 Год назад

Fernando Tatis Jr said "If you're a boy, If you don't play baseball I don't know where you're from" For me that's DR baseball culture is consist of passion and pride, and for me the special ability especially from the Caribbean continent like DR and others is the "Reflexes" I mean the reflexes of of baseball player especially from DR and other country in Caribbean is unbelievable

@Shel230 Год назад

No they really only got into the mlb cause black people quit playing why u think Latinos only have a presence in baseball and basketball and football are majority black

@ウエストライフ-n8e Год назад

As a Japanese, I can say that baseball is part of life in Japan too. When the Japanese national team won the WBC, the whole of Japan went into a big fever. I think Ichiro and Otani are famous in America. However, many players who have reached the major league level want to play in the Japanese league. This is because the Japanese league is the highest peak for the Japanese people, and the passion and support of the fans is greater in Japan than in the United States.

@NAT-turners-Revenge Год назад

True

@kem1233 Год назад

JAPAN IS NOT COOL OR HIP PLACE

@rickc.9664 11 месяцев назад

The DR is too poor and small to have a league as enticing as the US or Japan.

@arturob5306 11 месяцев назад

I agree that Japanese baseball fans take baseball way more seriously and way more enthusiastic about it. They’re better and bigger fans than Americans are

@Atentoamusicamedianews1 9 месяцев назад

@@rickc.9664we got a League for years its call lidom

@liamcol09 Год назад

"OWED A LOT OF MONEY TO EUROPE" HMM WONDER HOW THAT HAPPENED

@sinewedbastion Год назад

Whities be whiting everywhere they go

@dno718 Год назад

Im BANKing on you getting a response to this inquiry

@Tonyconstanza 9 месяцев назад

Loans weren’t paid back

@ryanho5432 Год назад

A dominant country indeed

@Charles-o3n Год назад

It’s called dedication and commitment ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿

@ThaNiceMeme Год назад

You forgot Mauricio Dubon (Honduras) and Martin Maldonado (Puerto Rico) in the latino breakdown graphic of the Houston Astros.

@josh_richards Год назад

are you surprised? vox knows nothing about sports which is why i click on their sports videos to see what they butcher like how they have the charlotte knights (white sox AAA) linked to the rangers, like just the first 30 seconds of the video was tell tale for "we are just quoting wikipedia"

@estilhernandez2705 Год назад

You are right, but the topic is why there so many DR players in mlb not Latin player as a whole…

@Puruvian 10 месяцев назад

@@estilhernandez2705 if they higlight urquidy and altuve, then they should highlight them too, they also forgot yainer diaz

@chriszenko3598 Год назад

Probably for the same reason many MLB players come from California and Florida. They have good weather 12 months a year

@0-Elias-0 Год назад

Ding. Ding. Ding.

@laurengrady3757 Год назад

Very interesting video. It would have been nice to hear directly from experts on the topic who are actually Dominican.

@wilber2k06 Год назад

Agreed; some historical inaccuracies in this video. The ambassador of the United States, James Mark Sullivan (1873 - 1935), was the one that brought baseball to the Dominican Republic. The first game was played in Monte Cristi. Also, there's no way Cuban plantation owners relocated to DR because slavery was already outlawed there and the only few places that slavery still existed to name a few at the time (1860) was in the United States, Cuba, Puerto Rico, or Brazil.

@lucaswhat6486 Год назад

It’s just that we’re always on top 🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴

@leguleyo69 11 месяцев назад

I am very familiar with the baseball industry in DR and this video is 100% accurate.

@spiritualwisdomsabiduriaes3337 Год назад

Because we are very talented 🇩🇴 and thanks to the major leagues for giving my Dominicans and open door to shine!

@NAT-turners-Revenge Год назад

Indeed african genetics

@allenderobles8639 Год назад

@@NAT-turners-Revenge 👍🇩🇴

@jova32790 Год назад

One thing I spotted that they forgot to include on the Astro’s team picture is mentioning one específico player… Mauricio dubon which he’s Honduran and idk how vox missed it!

@Tonyconstanza 9 месяцев назад

Well he’s not Dominican so he’s irrelevant to this video

@SanctusFammae Год назад

Dominicana y Liceísta hasta la tambora, que viva el Béisbol Dominicano y que viva la República Dominicana 🇩🇴

@arniepineda7799 Год назад

🐅🐅🐅🐅🐯

@Robotryx Год назад

🦅

@juniorcabrera1789 Год назад

Cause we them boys 🇩🇴

@CesarHernandez-gr4jm Год назад

"This is the MLB, we are all from the Dominican Republic"

@FV-gn7ce Год назад

My kid ain’t going to school he gonna practice baseball his whole life like these guys

@joemckim1183 Год назад

To things in proper perspective, Dominican Republic has 18K square miles and West Virginia has 24K square miles. So DR is only 3/4 as big as WV but produces 11% of all major leaguers.

@Shel230 Год назад

Yes now cause black people quit playing

@Shel230 Год назад

They didn't start to really get Latin players intill most black people quit playing

@ericgonzalez3641 Год назад

You have to consider that the DR has 11 million people and West Virginia doesn’t reach 2 million people

@NAT-turners-Revenge Год назад

@@Shel230 Most of them have african genetics 😁

@victormitrell2989 Год назад

@@NAT-turners-Revenge is that information relevant in this conversation?

@MrMlbfan6 Год назад

As a country baseball means the world to us is more than just a sport .

@harboco Год назад

10:05 per your graphic it would actually be 29* US teams and 1 Canadian team (Toronto). Kinda small but also kinda big mistake to make lol

@MidniteLibrary Год назад

I noticed this too.

@Ya-gu 10 месяцев назад

⚾First of all, I'm so glad to be able to meet and watch this video. I've always wanted to know more about baseball in Latin American countries🌎🇵🇷🇦🇷🇨🇱🇻🇪🇨🇴(also Mexico🇲🇽), such as Cuba🇨🇺, Nicaragua🇳🇮, Panamá🇵🇦 and the Dominican Republic🇩🇴. Basically, how they play it, its history there, their minds of ball-game , play-style, teams, players, stadiums🏟️, academies of the big league and cultures of it are really attractive and an interesting for me. And, in this year, Latin american baseball players play it very well dramatically. The national team of Cuba went to the semifinal of World Baseball Classic2023, and many Major Leaguers from there spend an awesome season, Mr. Camilo Doval🇩🇴, Mr. Adolis Garcia🇨🇺 Mr. Ronald Acuña Jr.🇻🇪, Mr. Luis Robert Jr.🇨🇺, Mr. Yordan Álvarez🇨🇺, Mr. Luis Arráez🇻🇪, Mr. Yandy Días🇨🇺, Mr. Julio Rodríguez🇩🇴, and other superstars.⚾🤩 So, I appreciate you for your video, anyway.❤️⚾👍🤩📱THE ALMENDARES BSEBALL TEAM⚾🇨🇺❤️ Saludos desde Japón⚾🎌

@muhisya Год назад

Please make a video why in Japan and South Korea baseball is so big too

@juansosa644 10 месяцев назад

Great video!

@ArashiKageTaro Год назад

Now do one on Japan please!

@Alex-sj6fq Год назад

Pretty solid video. Just two notes, it’s not the MLB, it’s just MLB. The other small mistake is that the Charlotte Knights and Texas Rangers have never been affiliated with each other

@elmascavidal1797 Год назад

De lo Mio …. 💪🏻🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴

@mjhout Год назад

I love baseball

@lilshawonjawn1465 Год назад

Shout out to all of the Dominicans De Lo Mio

@morenocharade 10 месяцев назад

Thank you for this support to The Dominican Republic..

@Sarah-uw7wb Год назад

Another well researched and beautiful video by rajaa & the Vox team!

@4ugayster Год назад

I can't believe it. I have been thinking about this over last 2 weeks, and now you make a new video about it. How can it be true?)

@og3932 Год назад

🇨🇺🫱🏻‍🫲🏽🇩🇴 we have to say thank you to our Cubans brothers for the game of baseball ⚾️

@Stoicsaiyan 8 месяцев назад

Brotherhood to the end

@matttheking1655 Год назад

This reminds me of the the key and Peele skit ..🤣🤣🤣

@mistaxyz2869 Год назад

Link

@Backyardbaseballtalk Месяц назад

Outstanding video

@AlexReyes Год назад

Proud Dominican over here!

@StudyYourself Год назад

beautiful to see this, thank you.

@ummuser Год назад

If you fly over the DR you’ll see it. Baseball fields everywhere

@allaboutiran1142 Год назад

Vox talking about important real world topics!

@MrSanchez Год назад

And we’re soo damm good at it 😌🇩🇴

@vigilante7 Год назад

Fantastic! Please more sports on Vox Atlas! The one on France’s soccer stars in the banlieus and Gazprom on soccer shirts we’re both very good 🎉

@jacksonhenninge6830 Год назад

Dominican born players definitely bring in more than $400 million a year. DR players are half the league and they’re more than half the talent in the league.

@DynamicUnreal Год назад

They are 11% of the league.

@upinsm0ke400 Год назад

0:40 Max Kepler representing for Germany ❤😂

@fastlanegaming Год назад

Proud to be 🇩🇴❤️‍🔥

@odyDgonz Месяц назад

Very interesting 🇩🇴

@DavidWoods255 Год назад

My usual comment: Atlas is the best thing Vox produces. Looks like you've taken over from Sam and you're doing a fantastic job

@kingace6186 Год назад

Thanks, Vox. This was a great video!

@savagepro9060 Год назад

'Dominican' is also the term used to describe people from The Commonwealth of Dominica, in the lower Caribbean region [Windward Islands]. It's known simply as Dominica. No baseball here, just cricket!

@ulisesjorge Год назад

The word "Dominican" while spelled the same in English is pronounced differently to distinguish between the two. Dominican (rom the Commonwealth of Dominica): This is pronounced as doh−mih−NIH−Kuhn with the stress on the second syllable from the end, which is typical of English pronunciation. Dominican (from the Dominican Republic): This is pronounced as doh−MIH−nih−kuh with the stress on the middle syllable. EDIT: Fixed it, had it backwards

@savagepro9060 Год назад

@@ulisesjorge my point was not on the pronunciation of the COUNTRIES, but the PEOPLE from the countries. They are BOTH called DOMINICANS!

@diddypablo2006 Год назад

@@ulisesjorge you got those pronunciations exactly backwards.

@Eibarwoman Год назад

The other thing is baseball and cricket batting skills are convertable enough that a pair of Jamaican cricket players became MLB outfielders in the 1980s in Rolando Roomes and Devon White.

@CristianmrWuno Год назад

They are also less than 100k people, nobody cares

@spiritualwisdomsabiduriaes3337 Год назад

The first Dominican player reached the major leagues in 1954...❤ so we Dominicans are a established household name in the majors league!

@mosijahi3096 Год назад

Great job guys in covering sports in this way?

@henselaquinogarcia02 9 месяцев назад

Hector neris es mi familiar y lo vi ayer

@LoloPortorreal Год назад

Loved this episode!

@stephenmiller2337 Год назад

First Dominican born MLB MVP, former Blue Jay George Bell.

@luissantana882 Год назад

Was a beast, him and Pedro Guerrero were batting machines!!

@Tonyconstanza 9 месяцев назад

I would’ve never thought a man named George Bell would be Dominican

@fibra64 9 месяцев назад

Magnífico❤👏Excelente Biografía De la Más Grande Historia Del Béisbol ⚾️, Ahora Quisiera Saber Como llego a PR Que También Practica El Béisbol Profesional y es Su Deporte Oficial ✔️.

@JorMPrez Год назад

One mistake you guys made, the Charlotte Knights are affiliated to the Chicago White Sox, not the Texas Rangers.

@anthonygallo2938 Год назад

Yeah, they've been affiliated with the Orioles, Marlins and Cleveland as well. Never Texas.

@feco729 11 месяцев назад

Just one comment.. The picture that identifies Trujillo as the owner of the team is not accurate. That was not him. He did own the team but the man in the picture is not Trujillo.

@MorningThief_ Год назад

the baseball appreciation & integration into Dominican culture seems very much the same as basketball is in the Philippines. former colony, one sport gets really big & ingrained into the culture. the difference being there are hardly (if any) any Filipinos in the NBA (those who grew up in the Philippines & have their skills developed at home). although we do have mixed heritage players like Jalen Green & Jordan Clarkson...

@Lime-uu4qj Год назад

How i wish our fellow Filipinos see baseball same with DR. Its more fun to watch and play baseball than basketball though its a matter of opinion.

@MorningThief_ Год назад

@@Lime-uu4qj I can see myself getting into baseball, but right now, I prefer cricket. Living in Australia for more than 2 decades will do that.

@Lime-uu4qj Год назад

@@MorningThief_ yeah ive heard cricket is popular in Australia and i have some idea of the sport due to jomboy hehe. I do support any sport except basketball

@jodh-cx1zd Год назад

The difference is that Filipinos never make it to the NBA for the most part. They are just big fans.

@romelimmense Год назад

The Philippines used to be good in baseball but basketball surpassed it. The reason is probably because the equipment use in baseball are expensive.

@CodingPhase Год назад

Great video

@eoghankenny5248 Год назад

The picture at 6:23 is not from the 1916-1924 occupation

@Ezequiel-fd2of 9 месяцев назад

Thank you for you work I liked so much your video

@WakeUp-xb8ze Год назад

Steroids are a problem on the DR. I am not exaggerating when I say 90% of MLB players from the Dominican have taken steroids at some point in their lives. Most likely from ages 10-13, and a lot of them don’t even realize what they are taken, a coach just tells them to take it. The reason they take it so young is that these are key developing years. They have roids to make you taller, stronger etc. I don’t think people realize how great of an advantage PED’s are, any high level athlete rlly knows tho. There is a reason that over 70% OF ALL steroid use in the mlb in the past 10 years has been from Dominican born players. Look it up if you don’t believe me………………..

@jodh-cx1zd Год назад

I should have took steroids smh

@BigLund Год назад

Me too!!! When I was in college we had guys that told me everyone at their academy were given “vitamins” daily. That kid had a man’s body at 18. I wonder why. SMH

@joel8692 Год назад

@@jodh-cx1zdyup lol I went to the Dominican republic at 16 from New York looking to get singed along with a few other guys who played with me in the states . We witnessed the trainer inject prospects with testosterone and tell them it was B complex . They did it to prospects who were about to go on a tryout

@hectorguerrero4080 9 месяцев назад

USA players are the Kings of Steroids so MLB is hiding something. Just saying.

@Tonyconstanza 9 месяцев назад

It’s still discredits the majority who are clean you can’t take a few who juiced and use them to represent the majority

@estefaniadelacruz4657 8 месяцев назад

Great work !

@Abigael317 Год назад

It sounds like the D.R. is actually doing okay as an economy. Meanwhile, across the mountainous border, Haiti seems like they're not doing okay as an economy.

@elmaster091 Год назад

Exactly that was made with a lot of effort and sacrifice haiti was destroyed by themselves and now they are accusing us of racism because we are protecting our country from the same destiny