Dominican/Puerto Rican/Cuban brehs

[SelfIndulgent]

Please explain to the rest of us just how big Baseball is in your culture

The only people I know who still give a rats ass about Baseball are the papis

 

[Zach Lowe]

beisbol

 

[NYC Rebel]

Puerto Ricans are playing baseball less and less. Only a handful of them in the majors

 

[SelfIndulgent]

@beanz
@Raul
@Arianne Martell

 

[tremonthustler1]

Puerto Ricans are playing baseball less and less. Only a handful of them in the majors

There's a resurgence now. PR been putting in work the last couple of years to build themselves back up. Good showings in the Caribbean World Series. Them and Cuba about to ride back up.

As for DR, baseball is religion. The OG's actually prefer boxing to baseball and the super young heads like basketball just as much, but baseball is the life blood. When baseball is your way off the island you'll always embrace it.

 

[Remote]

How?

Well it's a fun game to play.
And in a country like the DR where, frankly, there are not many viable ways to make a living, baseball provides a way for people to escape poverty.

I wish I could remember the name of the man who basically made DR a powerhouse nation in baseball.....Bill James mentioned a story in his Historical Baseball Abstract back in like 2000 or 2001.
I want to say it was Vic Power but I'm sure that's not it. Power was still playing in the 60s.

I'll have to re-read the book...it's in my room somewhere.

 

[Tunez]

Baseball is boring now

 

[flea]

In DR we'd play baseball with a tree branch and empty deodorant sticks I'm not even kidding. This was in the area we lived in though, shyt was mad poor.

 

[NYC Rebel]

There's a resurgence now. PR been putting in work the last couple of years to build themselves back up. Good showings in the Caribbean World Series. Them and Cuba about to ride back up.

As for DR, baseball is religion. The OG's actually prefer boxing to baseball and the super young heads like basketball just as much, but baseball is the life blood. When baseball is your way off the island you'll always embrace it.

I heard the head of prIcan sports say interest is decreasing

 

[tremonthustler1]

How?

Well it's a fun game to play.
And in a country like the DR where, frankly, there are not many viable ways to make a living, baseball provides a way for people to escape poverty.

I wish I could remember the name of the man who basically made DR a powerhouse nation in baseball.....Bill James mentioned a story in his Historical Baseball Abstract back in like 2000 or 2001.
I want to say it was Vic Power but I'm sure that's not it. Power was still playing in the 60s.

I'll have to re-read the book...it's in my room somewhere.

It was Vic.

Sam Pedro de Macoris is the BX of DR baseball. Crazy how you can play damn near anywhere there

 

[tremonthustler1]

I heard the head of prIcan sports say interest is decreasing

The interest has for a while but the pipeline of players is starting to open up (Correa from the Astros is one of the big success stories, same with Lindor). They're coming up again. They just need more successful academies.

The same thing will happen to DR if they're subject to the draft or if Dominican guards make it to the league.

 

[Remote]

It actually was Vic Power.

From Bill James' Historical Baseball Abstract:
(page 469)

After his playing career, Power was active in youth sports programs in San Pedro de Macoris. He is one of the key reasons - perhaps the key reason - why this village became the world's richest source of baseball talent.

My favorite Vic Power story... Vic Power in a restaurant in Syracuse, 1951. An embarrassed waiter shuffles up to him and explains "I'm sorry, sir, we don't serve colored people."
"That's OK," says Power. "I don't eat colored people."

Vic Power was Puerto Rican, for those who aren't familiar with him.

 

[Remote]

Damn, I remember when I bought that book.
I was in college and I skipped so many classes...I finished it in less than a week.

That book is like 800 pages.

 

[KnickstapeCity]

I just came to say this... Dominican hoes are straight status.

 

[Remote]

I just came to say this... Dominican hoes are straight status.

I can't condone this behavior, breh.