You Suck
YANKEES ARE TRHE BEST TEAM. Baseball is cool. Gigi is lame. Yankees will win next year. Boston sucks.
Why we win? We get good players. Arod is good. There is no curse. The curse must live.
I am the best. I need head. Yakees are the best. When I grow up I want to hit 9 homers in Haiti and Dominican Republic share the Caribbean island of Hispaniola and they shared a common history from roughly 15001800. Haiti today is the Western Hemisphere's poorest country while Dominican Republic enjoys the Caribbean's largest and fastest growing economy. As a result, Haitians fleeing pastime, more than a vocation, more than a seasonal activity. The rise of a generation of dominating major league players has reinforced the importance of baseball to the national economy and to the national psyche.
But baseball means more than money to Dominicans. It is a passion that reaches every corner of this Caribbean island nation. Venture into a Dominican town and you can bet you'll find children playing baseball on grassy fields, in streets, on parking lots, or, if fortunate, on actual baseball diamonds. Those without money for equipment play bare-handed with broomsticks for bats and tennis balls -- or even dolls' heads -- in place of baseballs.
Baseball has a long and colorful history in the Dominican Republic. After Cubans brought the game to the island in the late 1800s the first professional team the Licey Tigers was chartered in 1907. During the U.S. occupation in the 1920s the competitive structure of Dominican baseball expanded. And during the famous 1937 season Negro League stars such as Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, and Cool Papa Bell were recruited by the island's president in a successful attempt to win games and therefore the hearts and minds of the populace.
With the rise of player salaries and the increased prominence of Dominican players in Major League Baseball, there is an intense focus on finding...
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