Why so many baseball players are Dominican

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Жыл бұрын

And why so many players are among the best in Major League Baseball.
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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
www.amazon.com/Dominican-Base...
Sugarball: The American Game, the Dominican Dream by Alan Klein
www.amazon.com/Sugarball-Amer...
Pitching Democracy: Baseball and Politics in the Dominican Republic by April Yoder
www.amazon.com/Pitching-Democ...
Playing America’s Game: Baseball, Latinos and the Color Line by Adrian Burgos
www.amazon.com/Playing-Americ...
Further reading/watching:
MLB’s International Draft would Affect Dominican Republic
www.nytimes.com/2022/07/24/sp...
‘A failed system’: A corrupt process exploits Dominican baseball prospects. Is an international draft really the answer?
theathletic.com/3080470/2022/...
Inside Baseball’s Dominican Sweatshop System
www.typeinvestigations.org/in...
Baseball Is A Field Of Dreams - And Dashed Hopes - For Dominicans
www.npr.org/sections/goatsand...
MLB’s neo colonial practices in the Dominican Republic Academy system
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/...
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@hendrx Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

Don't forget about vitilla.

@busyrand Жыл бұрын

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

@TheKNIGHTELFMOHAWK Жыл бұрын

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

@clarkesmith. Жыл бұрын

@@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 Жыл бұрын

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.

@lazywallstreetnews7234 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

Facts

@ricardogarcia6453 Жыл бұрын

This is a real comment that add value to the conversation

@Marjorie321 11 ай бұрын

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

@lazywallstreetnews7234 10 ай бұрын

@@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 5 ай бұрын

🇵🇷👍

@gueits8586 Жыл бұрын

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

@danmarkespejo5498 Жыл бұрын

Literally

@hendrx Жыл бұрын

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

@FIXTREME 11 ай бұрын

Sounds like heaven

@ec3840 9 ай бұрын

😂

@drkid4l220 7 ай бұрын

I can confirm that🤣🤣

@hectormorales8471 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@Jaxck77 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

Interesting 🤔

@2552legoboy Жыл бұрын

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

@kielamaral1909 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

Americans.

@dosantosbojan Жыл бұрын

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

@cam-asherbond5316 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@rokrV Жыл бұрын

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

@tke7749 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

@@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 Жыл бұрын

@@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)

@montantico Жыл бұрын

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.

@cenq9093 Жыл бұрын

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 8 ай бұрын

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

@vj7994 8 ай бұрын

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

@mannyrodriguez5453 8 ай бұрын

@@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 5 ай бұрын

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

@Fromros Жыл бұрын

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

@dcrijo Жыл бұрын

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.

@frankalmanzar3492 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

Plátano power 💪🏼

@uliseshernandez3163 Жыл бұрын

Correction: Dominican Vs Mexican player, ✅

@yungxancash1459 Жыл бұрын

@@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 Жыл бұрын

He is a Mexican national treasure

@uliseshernandez3163 Жыл бұрын

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

@IsaacPel Жыл бұрын

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

@octaviousharper3873 Жыл бұрын

😂 A man of culture I see.

@makatron Жыл бұрын

Just watch out for the celebration slapassss

@zezeison 3 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

@Kxji Жыл бұрын

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

@DekaiDekaiDekai 7 ай бұрын

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

@Kxji 7 ай бұрын

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

@stephenmiller2337 Жыл бұрын

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.

@ricardogerman2265 Жыл бұрын

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.

@ancelcole4404 Жыл бұрын

American born however I played against cuban, Venezuelan, Puerto rican, and Dominican over my 20+ years of playing baseball. I must say those boys know how to play. They truly made Me become a great player.

@ecx007 Жыл бұрын

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

@ykJvacano Жыл бұрын

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

@JorgeRodriguez-ih8ub Жыл бұрын

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

@doragon18 Жыл бұрын

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

@MariposaRising Жыл бұрын

I loved this perspective on how the sport made it's way to Cuba and the Dominican Republic but it was worth mentioning that the indigenous people of the Caribbean, Tainos, had a sport that was similar to baseball 'Batu', 'Batey', 'Batos'. Although, it was not the same it had a similar structure.

@arturob5306 9 ай бұрын

It was not similar at all. The only comparison you can make is that it’s a sport that uses a ball. That’s it. Nothing else was like the sport of baseball Not to mention many say that Batéy was just a simplified version of the Mayan game pok ta pok

@JERSEYBOYPLAY2HARD 8 ай бұрын

Should put football in Dominican Republic

@Tonyconstanza 6 ай бұрын

@@JERSEYBOYPLAY2HARDnah they’re not big enough baseball rules

@JSL-ru1cq Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

@jacaranda4689 7 ай бұрын

Luego

@Tonyconstanza 6 ай бұрын

Venezuela would be interesting

@jimmygomtor Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

No one call baseball the king of sports, liar

@jimmygomtor Жыл бұрын

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

@Polo9794 Жыл бұрын

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

@chagrined4days Жыл бұрын

Read "You gotta have wa" by Robert Whiting

@pramanabudiman9761 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@Ramboost007 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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.

@davidgodoy826 Жыл бұрын

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

@CaraMarie13 Жыл бұрын

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

@AlexReyes Жыл бұрын

Proud Dominican over here!

@StudyYourself Жыл бұрын

beautiful to see this, thank you.

@arpitavora2369 Жыл бұрын

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

@laloma333 Жыл бұрын

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

@SanDiego_VDubLife Жыл бұрын

Pretty sweet. Wow I watched this within 24 hours of being released. This episode was so important at such a crucial time. I love the class perspective that was woven in. I'm a Padres fan and a Chicano and pay attention to issues concerning race and class. I love seeing the Dominican players and the city loves them too. I think Machado is Dominican too. I thought it was interesting when I see ARod, Soto, Big Papi and Guerrero all talking Spanish on the national stage during the All Star game. Thanks Vox!!!

@WanerPena Жыл бұрын

Of course, Machado is Dominican, ex Yankees fan here and San Diego fans right now. Lol

@BXDudeRD2007 Жыл бұрын

I love this video and point it out the passion we have for baseball in DR 🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴 and a shout out to lose tigueres de licey 🐯🐯💙💙

@mounamai1 Жыл бұрын

such a great explainer!!

@availablity3173 Жыл бұрын

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

@redacted5035 Жыл бұрын

Cuba too😅

@availablity3173 Жыл бұрын

@@redacted5035 I know I know🤣 I meant everyone

@albertogarciab.2088 Жыл бұрын

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

@camilofuentespena7348 8 ай бұрын

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

@StoicChoco Жыл бұрын

Great video, keep it up!!

@realbaron5714 Жыл бұрын

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 🇩🇴🇩🇴💪💪

@kingace6186 Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Vox. This was a great video!

@Dandrinetwork Жыл бұрын

Great great episode!! Good job!!!

@wilber2k06 Жыл бұрын

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.

@ThaNiceMeme Жыл бұрын

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

@josh_richards Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@Puruvian 7 ай бұрын

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

@Evynnwithay Жыл бұрын

What a great video! Thank you

@ritabenkhalti8809 8 ай бұрын

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

@lebronlareina 11 ай бұрын

I'M DOMINICAN BUT I LIVE IN USA AND MY DREAM IS THAT MY SON WILL BE A BASEBALL PLAYER 🥰🥰WE LOVE BASEBALL (EN Dr we say jugar pelota 😂)

@ricardodiazcollado813 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

Roberto Clemente

@noliturs 10 ай бұрын

Get over it lloricua.

@LoloPortorreal Жыл бұрын

Loved this episode!

@user-bs2ep1ml4i Жыл бұрын

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

@ryansheridan6845 Жыл бұрын

29 American teams + 1 Canadian

@Rfpenab Жыл бұрын

I liked the neo-colonial comparison of Dominican players to natural resources waiting to be extracted and manufactured. Truly brilliant.

@NAT-turners-Revenge Жыл бұрын

I like the way they ignored african genetics

@Rfpenab Жыл бұрын

@@NAT-turners-Revenge what do you mean?

@itzkrepo4103 Жыл бұрын

@@NAT-turners-Revengewhat are you talking about

@jodh-cx1zd Жыл бұрын

@@NAT-turners-RevengeJapan is way better than us Dominicans at baseball? Do they have African genes?

@arturob5306 9 ай бұрын

@@itzkrepo4103he can’t even explain what he meant. What a moronic statement

@Kikusin22 7 ай бұрын

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

@hellenbenjamin07 Жыл бұрын

Loved it!

@jova32790 Жыл бұрын

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 6 ай бұрын

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

@ryanho5432 Жыл бұрын

A dominant country indeed

@mjhout Жыл бұрын

This was awesome

@CodingPhase Жыл бұрын

Great video

@liamcol09 Жыл бұрын

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

@sinewedbastion Жыл бұрын

Whities be whiting everywhere they go

@dno718 Жыл бұрын

Im BANKing on you getting a response to this inquiry

@Tonyconstanza 6 ай бұрын

Loans weren’t paid back

@1990Thunderbolt Жыл бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

😂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 10 ай бұрын

@@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 6 ай бұрын

@@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

@hkl614 11 ай бұрын

answers a lot of questions for me. thanks for that

@S.P.O.O.K.Y. Жыл бұрын

Because they’re amazing!!

@eddiemonesti5671 Жыл бұрын

From the late 1800 hundreds when Cubams brought baseball to the Dominican republic to early 2000, baseball used to be a truly passionate sport for Dominicans, Growing 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.

@vigilante7 Жыл бұрын

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 🎉

@ramonturbi8514 7 ай бұрын

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

@MoneyBizzz Жыл бұрын

Great Video!

@lucaswhat6486 Жыл бұрын

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

@mosijahi3096 Жыл бұрын

Great job guys in covering sports in this way?

@j.mieses8139 Жыл бұрын

Well done!

@4ugayster Жыл бұрын

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?)

@aanchaallllllll 10 ай бұрын

2:53: ⚾ Baseball became a national entity in Cuba and the Dominican Republic, rooted in the working class. 5:24: 🇨🇺 The video discusses the impact of US-Cuba relations on Major League Baseball and the shift to recruiting talent from the Dominican Republic. 8:26: ⚾ Major League Baseball turned its attention to the Dominican Republic in the late 1950s, signing talented players and expanding quickly. 10:32: 💰 The MLB profits from signing Dominican players for cheaper contracts while making millions off of them. Recap by Tammy AI

@laurengrady3757 Жыл бұрын

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

@wilber2k06 Жыл бұрын

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.

@MEPEREZ8 7 ай бұрын

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

@jlovelove4006 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the great video

@ArashiKageTaro Жыл бұрын

Now do one on Japan please!

@allaboutiran1142 Жыл бұрын

Vox talking about important real world topics!

@sousousousou7482 Жыл бұрын

Good job rajaa. Good luck.

@LadyVenus125 Жыл бұрын

Nice video!

@chriszenko3598 Жыл бұрын

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

@0-Elias-0 Жыл бұрын

Ding. Ding. Ding.

@dominicanknives9206 Жыл бұрын

It makes me happy to see Dominicans in the spotlight for a bit😊

@MrMlbfan6 Жыл бұрын

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

@Gregory_tottie Жыл бұрын

Excellent video. Love you Vox.

@spiritualwisdomsabiduriaes3337 Жыл бұрын

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

@NAT-turners-Revenge Жыл бұрын

Indeed african genetics

@allenderobles8639 Жыл бұрын

@@NAT-turners-Revenge 👍🇩🇴

@DavidWoods255 Жыл бұрын

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

@conorgilles81 Жыл бұрын

Great history lesson.

@babbaganush9659 Жыл бұрын

Great video.

@muhisya Жыл бұрын

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

@Sarah-uw7wb Жыл бұрын

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

@Ezequiel-fd2of 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for you work I liked so much your video

@matttheking1655 Жыл бұрын

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

@mistaxyz2869 Жыл бұрын

Link

@joemckim1183 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

Yes now cause black people quit playing

@Shel230 Жыл бұрын

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

@ericgonzalez3641 Жыл бұрын

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

@NAT-turners-Revenge Жыл бұрын

@@Shel230 Most of them have african genetics 😁

@victormitrell2989 Жыл бұрын

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

@Laughing2you Жыл бұрын

Good video

@FV-gn7ce Жыл бұрын

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

@S.P.O.O.K.Y. Жыл бұрын

We need a few more on the tigers 😂

@SanctusFammae Жыл бұрын

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

@arniepineda7799 Жыл бұрын

🐅🐅🐅🐅🐯

@Robotryx Жыл бұрын

🦅

@og3932 Жыл бұрын

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

@Stoicsaiyan 5 ай бұрын

Brotherhood to the end

@leguleyo69 9 ай бұрын

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

@CesarHernandez-gr4jm Жыл бұрын

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

@revlo1557 Жыл бұрын

Loved this episode! The history of baseball, MLB and Latin America with some geopolitics and race mixed in. Great work Vox.

@janelis156 Жыл бұрын

I'm dominican this is very interesting great video btw

@AshlyCruzdiaz Жыл бұрын

what a great video!

@lilshawonjawn1465 Жыл бұрын

Shout out to all of the Dominicans De Lo Mio

@jonathanadam8344 Жыл бұрын

Rly awesome video - thank you! one minor, semantical quibble: if you're including the "the" article, I think you say 'the Major Leagues' as opposed to 'the MLB' (which is like saying 'the Major League Baseball').

@hoodycello Жыл бұрын

The pain that fills my soul when someone calls it "the MLB" 💔💔💔💔💔💔

@MatthewDCampbell Жыл бұрын

Came here to say that. No one says “the MLB,” and it’s jarring every time she says that.

@Puruvian 7 ай бұрын

@@MatthewDCampbell the minor league and i dont think she understands signing international players for large sums of money is a concept