The Dominican Republic's Rising Baseball Players

The Dominican Republic's Rising Baseball Players
Christopher Morris / VII for TIME

Hardball
Prospects work out at a primitive facility in the Dominican Republic. Dominican teens see baseball as a way out of poverty. So do the buscones, the trainers who develop baseball talent and take a big cut of a player's earnings.

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