Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last year. Fast on the heels of Mark McGwire and Ken Griffey Jr., Sosa is the dark-horse candidate to shatter the single-season record for home runs. Thanks to a spectacular--some might say freaky--June in which he popped 20 home runs, a major league record, the Dominican native showed that he is finally harnessing his impulsiveness. As of Saturday, he had racked up 36 homers, just six behind leader McGwire. Sosa's batting record of .319 this season is a full .57 points higher than his career average...
...Harvard the largest rally against sweatshoplabor was in April, when over 100 students ralliedalong with a worker from the Dominican Republicoutside University Hall
...less publicized crusades against the devastating diseases of guinea worm and river blindness in the Third World. Operating out of the Carter Center in Atlanta, he has used his commanding moral authority to mediate disputes and monitor elections and coax transitions to democracy in Panama, Nicaragua, Haiti, Zambia, the Dominican Republic, Bosnia and other countries...
...throughout the game, whenever Pedro ran the count to two strikes, twenty thousand voices chanted ponchalo, ponchalo Pedro, nineteen thousand of us mispronouncing the words. The fans holding the ubiquitous red, white and blue Dominican flags which vendors sold on Yawkey Way before the game were not exclusively Dominicans, either: a good deal, perhaps a majority of them, were white...
Baseball has this strange capacity to blur nationalities. Perhaps because it has no international competitions (aside from the largely ignored Olympics) to inflame nationalistic prejudices, or perhaps because some of our best players are foreign-born, baseball fans heartily embrace players from Japan, Mexico, Korea, the Dominican Republic, and all over the world, without a hint of xenophobia or prejudice. The increasing international flavor of the game is the most exciting trend in baseball of recent years, and if the behavior of the fans at Fenway is any indication, we are more than just accepting of foreign players...