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Among the sea of Dominican flags at Fenway Park Friday night, a few of the more traditional Red Sox fans in attendance were getting their first lesson in Spanish. Pedro Martinez, Boston's new ace, was on the mound against the Cleveland Indians, and a large contingent of the city's Dominican population had arrived to lend him their vociferous support. Long before the first pitch, as Martinez warmed up in the bullpen, the chanting and cheering began, and it didn't stop until Pedro's final pitch retired David Justice to end the ninth...
Initially, the old guard Royal Rooters seemed a little hesitant to get caught up in the moment. But after four inning's worth of beer, at which point Martinez already had eight strikeouts, the suspicious reserve of most English-speaking fans had evaporated, and they joined in the cheering. Luckily, the vocabulary of baseball is fairly simple in any language: by inference, ponchalo means "strike him out," jonrUn, Moe means "homerun, Moe," Yanquis, when inflected properly, means "somebody please kill that bastard," and of course Medias Rojas means...
Cleveland (Nagy 2-0) at Boston (Martinez...
...have seen a few more courses which deal with race and ethnicity," says Gonzalo Martinez '98, former president of RAZA. "It seems to me there has been more focus or at least lip service to ethnic studies...
Houston (Reynolds 1-0) at Los Angeles (R. Martinez...