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...number of outstanding Dominican players--including future Hall of Fame Pitcher Juan Marichal, Rico Carty and the three Alou brothers, Felipe, Jesus and Matty--went off to the U.S. and major league success. Impressed, the Dominican government built three professional-quality parks on the island, one of them in San Pedro. Today the town draws youngsters from other communities who move there to play on San Pedro's 200 teams...
Back on the dusty streets where horse-drawn carts roll alongside the occasional Mercedes, other boys hope to make it to the big leagues, and those who have are often there to help. "I wanted to be just like Rico Carty," says Cleveland Pitcher Ramon Romero. "Maybe someday I'll be someone's hero." Mindful of his own debt, Oakland's Griffin supplies uniforms, bats and balls to a San Pedro sugar-mill team called, appropriately enough, Estrellas de Griffin. Andujar spends much of the off-season coaching teenage players there. Says he: "I could go to the beach...
...recently as 1950, the census counted fewer than 4 million residents on the U.S. mainland who would today fall under the category Hispanic, the majority of Mexican descent. Last year there were an estimated 17.6 million, with roughly 60% tracing their ancestry to Mexico and the rest to Puerto Rico, Cuba, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Venezuela and about two dozen other countries of Central and South America. Fully two-thirds were immigrants, according to a study by Yankelovich, Skelly & White Inc., a New York market-research and polling firm, that was commissioned by the SIN Television Network...
...rock concerts. In sports, Hispanics have been most conspicuous -- and successful -- in boxing and baseball. They make up a sizable proportion of the crowds at boxing matches in New York and Los Angeles, cheering for the many Hispanic fighters who are ranking contenders (Cruiserweight Carlos "Sugar" DeLeon, from Puerto Rico, is world champion). Almost 100 of the roughly 1,000 players in major league baseball at the beginning of the season were born in Latin America. A Hispanic All-Star team might include Pitchers Fernando Valenzuela, Joaquin Andujar and Willie Hernandez; Infielders Rod Carew, Damaso Garcia and Dave Concepcion; Outfielders...
...eight years since George Foreman lost a twelve-round decision to Jimmy Young in Puerto Rico and moments thereafter found the Lord. There were those who blamed the former heavyweight champion's immediate change of plans --he gave up boxing--on hallucinations brought on by heat prostration. But Foreman said that, to his mind, an oppressively hot night in San Juan was one thing, a call from God something else, and he knew the difference. Off came the gloves...