Baseball is the only game in town, it’s poor, but most importantly, kids can sign pro contracts when they’re teenagers. So Jorge is taking BP and grounders at short for 8 hours a day while Birdshit Braden has to sit through Algebra and English Lit.

Also once they’re signed the team pays for everything, you don’t need to have UMC parents shelling out thousands for gear and fees.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5784646&forum_id=2Reputation#49336415)

the DR countryside is unimaginably poor, and the more rural it is, the blacker it is. people are also incredibly patriotic, love being dominican. Dominicans dominating beisbol is something every single person is willing to sacrifice for, like a war-time effort or something

From the age they can walk, boys are playing some kind of stickball. The one game I saw all the time in the dirt streets, icr the name, but the pitcher chucks the cap of a laundry bottle and the batter uses a broomstick. The plastic cap flutters like a motherfucker, almost impossible to make contact. They do this all day, every day, from like age 4.

Anyone with any talent - and genetically many of these rural rice-picking blacks are direct descendants of slaves - is immediately lionized in the village, and nationally. They are taken from their homes and sent to live in a baseball academy around age 12, where they play and are coached for around 10 hrs a day.

a mlb team can then sign them for like 50k, own them as prospects, and that is more money than anyone in the village has ever seen, ever.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5784646&forum_id=2Reputation#49336441)

way back in the day when baseball was bigger in the US than all other sports combined, a job playing baseball was one of the few ways to escape working in a mine, a factory, or on a farm.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5784646&forum_id=2Reputation#49336488)

https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/22624561/ichiro-suzuki-return-seattle-mariners-resolve-internal-battle

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5784646&forum_id=2Reputation#49336934)

So I met the kid, explained what Id heard, and asked to see his hands, to see how long his fingers were.

He was pretty young, pretty shy, and not much of a "pelotero" himself - just a legacy, so I dont think he appreciated people always talking about his pops. Long story short, he obv didnt want to have this convo or be compared to his old man, so he kind of beckoned me into some back room.

His hands weren't remarkable, but kid had the longest penis youve ever seen

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5784646&forum_id=2Reputation#49337104)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14586889/dominican-republic-superhuman-vision-diet.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5784646&forum_id=2Reputation#49336859)