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Even so, free-press advocates are hopeful that the ruling will send a powerful message, starting in Costa Rica. "We cannot imagine," editorialized La Prensa Libre, "that we requested an opinion only to lightly ignore it." Elsewhere, evidence is mounting that the message will not be discounted. In the Dominican Republic, six publishers are pressing a court challenge against that nation's colegio. And in Peru, Editor Enrique Zileri sees the Schmidt decision as the end of any oppressive threat from licensing. He exulted, "It can't happen here." Although gratified about the victory, Attorney Marks feels the battle...
FOOTNOTE: *Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Panama, Peru and Venezuela...
Umpiring became an international crisis last week, when George Bell, a Toronto outfielder from the Dominican Republic, implied that baseball did not want a truly World Series and was conspiring against the Canadian semifinalist, which once employed a Canadian player. Nobody knows yet whether Arkansan Lloyd Moseby caught or trapped a crucial ball in centerfield, but that call and four or five other dubious ones went against Toronto. "If our ball club was American . . ." Bell grumbled three days before the Blue Jays finished squandering their 3-1 lead over Kansas City, thereby missing this week's date with St. Louis...
...hardscrabble Dominican town, major league baseball play...
Four major league clubs--the Dodgers, Atlanta Braves, Chicago White Sox and Houston Astros--now run permanent baseball camps in San Pedro. Says New York Mets Scouting Director Joe McIlvaine, whose staff keeps tabs on Dominican boys as young as 14: "If we get calls from San Pedro and another town there, we give the boy from San Pedro the first look." In 1984 the recruiting rules were tightened to protect young players; scouts who once signed athletic teenagers at first glance on the streets of San Pedro must now obtain proof that the boys are at least 17. Still...