Get a ball and start a team in your neighborhood. Get to know people around you.
To hell with professional sports, packed stadiums, and their all-around price gouging.
Interesting that they can recruit players in the Dominican Republic with these baseball academies for the youth of that poor country.
Why they are allowed to do this when American players are available? They can’t honestly argue that there aren’t enough American players to staff the major league teams.
While we shouldn’t discriminate against players from other countries, neither should we give them a free pass, as is apparently done with the Dominican players. The Dominicans are getting preferential treatment in recruiting, training, etc. to eventually get to the major leagues.