Word: sugars
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...sugar...
...journey of two local boys to the big leagues would be the talk of any other town. But in San Pedro (pop. 123,000), theirs are just two of many tales. For while San Pedro turns out a respectable amount of sugar, it refines ballplayers in unrivaled numbers. No other community of its size anywhere has produced so many big league players--some 270 in the past 15 years. A dozen Macoristas are currently playing in the majors, and about 140 more are on minor league teams...
...south coast 40 miles from Santo Domingo, San Pedro began work on its two main export crops, sugar and baseball talent, more or less simultaneously. At the turn of the century, the game was cultivated by newly arrived American owners of the sugar mills, who sponsored company teams in local competition. The mill workers were good players, in part, it is said, because wielding machetes in the cane fields had strengthened their arms. Ensuing years of team rivalry and the 1916-24 occupation by U.S. Marines helped make America's national pastime San Pedro's major social activity...
...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 and have a good time, but they dream of coming to the United States to play professional baseball. That...
Scott: "I like anything with caffeine and sugar; Mountain Dew, Coke, coffee...