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In the Dominican Republic players are shaving years off their ages for a shot at the big leagues
In the Dominican Republic kids train hard at the hope of making it in baseball's big leagues, but their families face financial pressures along the way. (AP/ Martin Adames) Elon Musk made ...
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For Dominican baseball hopefuls, age fraud cases and a curveball from Japan reflect a broken system
Dozens of teenage baseball players across the Dominican Republic lay in bed ... It's an enormous amount of pressure, and it ...
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Juan Soto almost had a very different career in baseball
Rafael Zapata, the owner of a youth baseball academy in the Dominican Republic, was responsible for the idea. “I told them: ‘I know his bat has money in it,‘” Zapata told Ranhawa ...
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For Dominican baseball hopefuls, age fraud cases and a curveball from Japan reflect a broken system
Dozens of teenage baseball players across the Dominican Republic lay in bed ... It's an enormous amount of pressure, and it falls squarely on kids who would be middle schoolers in the U.S. The ...