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	Foreign Born Baseball Players - The first from each country by Baseball Almanac
		Foreign born players have had a rich history in Major League Baseball and the numbers of players on major league rosters has been rising steadily during the previous century.
		Baseball Almanac is pleased to present a comprehensive chart with the first player born in a country or territory other than the United States listed with details about their major league debut.
		Ed Porray of the Buffalo Buffeds made his Major League debut on April 17, 1914 and his place of birth is listed as "At Sea - On Atlantic Ocean" — another first.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /firsts/first13.shtml (244 words)

	Culture of Colombia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The culture of Colombia is diverse and rich and is mostly derived from a sharp sense of familial and regional tradition.
		Baseball has become popular in recent years; it is especially popular along the coast and is strongly promoted all around the country.
		Colombia · Ecuador · Guyana · Panama · Paraguay · Peru · Suriname · Trinidad and Tobago · Uruguay · Venezuela
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Culture_of_Colombia (842 words)

	Major League Baseball Players Born in Colombia
		Since the 19th Century, Major League Baseball has enjoyed a rich, diverse, world-wide set of talent not seen in any other major league sport.
		The table below is a comprehensive historical analysis of every major league baseball player born in Colombia.
		Baseball Almanac is aware that researching baseball players by their place of birth is common data found easily on the Internet today.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /players/birthplace.php?loc=Colombia (309 words)

	BaseballAmerica.com: Prospects: Daily Dish: August 11
		The next time the Olympics are held--with baseball on the program for the last time--USA Baseball, which assembles the coaching staff and players for the team, wants to do everything it can to have one of the eight teams in the field.
		Officials at both USA Baseball and Baseball Canada said they were struggling to put together rosters with less than two weeks remaining before the Olympic qualifying tournament was scheduled to begin in Cuba.
		Seiler, who works closely with Major League Baseball's Bob Watson, the general manager of USA Baseball's professional teams, to work with major league organizations and facilitate having their players wear the Team USA uniform.
	www.baseballamerica.com /today/prospects/news/262155.html (1520 words)

	The Official Site of Major League Baseball: Events: 2004 Hall of Fame Inductions: Frick Award
		Play-byplay experience includes baseball, basketball, football and hockey for the University of Vermont...From 1974 to 1976 was the swing man on Montreal Expos radio broadcasts on television nights...Member of the broadcast team for ABC Sports at the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid and 1984 Olympics at Sarajevo...Has broadcast college basketball for Mutual Radio Network.
		During a 13-year major league career in which he compiled 97 saves and earned Fireman of the Year honors in 1975, was already was preparing himself for broadcasting by working as a sportscaster for a St. Louis TV station...Inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in 2003.
		Baseball broadcasting pioneer, he was the one full-time broadcaster on the east coast until New York teams ended a ban on broadcasts in 1938...
	newyork.yankees.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/mlb/events/hof/y2004/frick_bios.jsp (16410 words)

	Pittsburgh Sports Report - Urban Redevelopment. African-American Athletes Ignoring Baseball By John E. Sacco
		Baseball has become more global and there are areas of the world where players have proven to be legitimate major leaguers.
		He agrees with Gomez that the decline in African-American players in the major leagues is likely to continue.
		Latin Americans have made inroads into baseball management in recent years, and the excitement players from the Dominican Republic and Cuba bring in the form of quicker, passionate and an even more confrontational style of play is invigorating.
	www.pghsports.com /2004-Issues/psr0408/04080102.html (944 words)

	TDA Front Page
		And a recent former major leaguer, Bobby Madritsch, pitched for the Seattle Mariners in 2004 and 2005 and was traded to the Kansas City Royals for the 2006 season.
		Therefore, it is ever more important that these two players by virtue of their climb to success at the major league level and beyond play a key role in introducing a whole new source of untapped talent of American boys, who just happen to live on a reservation.
		The approximate 600 workers at the baseball factory in Turrialba are either âsewersâ who stitch the cowhide covers onto the baseballâs sphere, or they are assemblers and winders who are responsible for assembling the coreâs parts, made of two kinds of rubber and cork, and the winding of the ballâs four different grades of yarn.
	www.thediamondangle.com (9130 words)

	SLAM! Major League Statistics
		Each major league organization had at least one representative but no more than two.
		Just like the major league All-Star Game, there were deserving players left off today's roster due to space limitations.
		Players deserving consideration that were left off the World Team included Florida Marlins' Triple-A catcher Ramon Castro (.283, 10 HR, 40 RBI) and outfielder Julio Ramirez (.256, 9 HR, 41 RBI, 46 SB); and Diamondbacks Class-A outfielder Abraham Nunez (.265, 10 HR, 53 RBI, 32 SB).
	www.canoe.ca /StatsBBM/BC-BBM-LGNS-FUTRENOTES-R.html (1240 words)

	Fields of Broken Dreams: Latinos and Baseball \| ColorLines \| Spring 2000
		Baseball is investing millions in Latin America, sending scouts across the Caribbean basin in search of barefoot boys with quick reflexes, strong hand-eye coordination, and powerful arms.
		When Tejada reached the big leagues in August of 1997, his dream was realized and baseball people could rightly say that the game had given a wonderful life to a kid with no options.
		Those who slipped into the big leagues were sworn to lie about their African heritage and barely made a dent in the public consciousness before fading into oblivion.
	www.arc.org /C_Lines/CLArchive/story3_1_04.html (2411 words)

	Eastern League Baseball
		"Major League Baseball would like to thank the 30 Major League clubs for their continuing cooperation in providing USA Baseball with an outstanding group of professional players," said Sandy Alderson, Executive Vice President, Baseball Operations for Major League Baseball.
		The final roster includes 10 players with Major League experience, five former first-round picks from Major League Baseball's First-Year Player Draft, and 10 players that have played for USA Baseball in the past, including a pair of Olympic gold medalists from Sydney in 2000.
		In addition, USA Baseball has learned that three countries that were originally scheduled to participate in the Olympic qualifying event - Aruba, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic - have dropped out.
	www.easternleague.com /release.taf?release=338 (392 words)

	Salaries up 9 percent; Yankees' payroll tops \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Baseball's average salary soared 9 percent this year to nearly $2.9 million, with Alex Rodriguez topping a sport in which more than half the players on opening-day rosters make $1 million or more.
		Rodriguez headed the list at $25.7 million and was No. 1 for the sixth straight year, according to a study of major league contracts by The Associated Press.
		The percentage of major league baseball players born outside the United States dropped slightly to 27.4 on opening day from last year's record of 29.2.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20060406/news_1s6bbnotes.html (432 words)

	USATODAY.com - Baseball's long journey to the present (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The franchise is the House That Ruth Built, a baseball palace where a dying Lou Gehrig called himself, "the luckiest man on the face of the earth." The Yankees are Babe Ruth hitting 60, Roger Maris hitting 61, and Mickey Mantle hitting one off the facade.
		In a ceremony at Shea Stadium marking Robinson's major league debut, President Bill Clinton said Robinson had "changed the face of baseball and the face of America, forever." Commissioner Bud Selig announced that Robinson's No. 42 would be retired throughout the major leagues.
		At the start of the 2001 season, nearly 220 players born outside the USA were on rosters, from 17 countries from Aruba to Panama, Colombia to Korea.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/bbw/2002-01-09/2002-01-09-cover.htm (5327 words)

	Negro - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Río Negro (Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil), river in South America, a major tributary of the Amazon River.
		Negro means fl in the Spanish, Portuguese and ancient Italian languages, being derived from the Latin word niger of the same meaning.
		Frequently asked questions about Negro League baseball at Negro League Baseball Dot Com...the online...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Negro.html (235 words)

	geoffrey kirkman’s blog » Latin American baseball -- the future of the Major Leagues
		While virtually all major league players from the U.S. have graduated from high school, and many have gone to university, these players sit side-by-side with incredible success stories and national heroes in their Latin American colleagues, but heroes and successes who more likely than not do not have very much formal education.
		Informally, baseball insiders say that if Latin American baseball players were arranged hierarchically in order of their level of education, Puerto Rico would be at the top and the Dominican Republic at the bottom, with Mexico, Panama, Venezuela and the others in between.
		Most statistics about players’ nationality (or place of origin in the case of Puerto Rico) belie another demographic change in baseball that mirrors the increase in Latinos as a significant population in the U.S. There are more and more U.S. players of Latin descent in the big leagues.
	blogs.law.harvard.edu /kirkman/2003/04/14/latin-american-baseball-the-future-of-the-major-leagues (1239 words)

	Sports: 'Total Baseball' says Clemens remains tied with Johnson
		Pete Palmer of Total Baseball said the extra strikeout is from 1907, Johnson's rookie season, and said Johnson had 71 that year instead of 70.
		There were 216 players born outside the United States among the 854 players, according to figures released Tuesday by the commissioner's office.
		Seventy-nine players were born in the Dominican Republic, 37 in Puerto Rico, 33 in Venezuela, 14 in Mexico, 11 in Canada, 10 in Cuba, nine in Panama, eight in Japan, three each in Australia and Colombia, two each in Nicaragua and Korea, and one each in England, Jamaica, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Aruba and Curacao.
	www.sptimes.com /News/040401/news_pf/Sports/_Total_Baseball__says.shtml (574 words)

	The Arizona Republic \| Newspapers In Education
		There are players from Japan (Ichiro Suzuki of the Mariners), Puerto Rico (Carlos Beltran of the Mets), Cuba (Jose Contreras of the White Sox), Colombia (Edgar Renteria of the Braves) and Curacao (Andruw Jones of the Braves).
		For baseball players with international roots, America is proving to be quite a land of opportunity.
		List the names of Hispanic or international players who are leaders in different categories, and the total number of players listed in each category.
	www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/nie/lessons/lesson0707.html (940 words)

	American Chronicle: Major League Baseball Profits from New Change in Immigration Law
		Major League Baseball (MLB) will celebrate the 60th Anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s entry into the major leagues, on April 15, 2007, which ended the prohibition of integration of African American players.
		The legislation changes the visa status of foreign-born minor league players to be able to use P-1 visas, formerly reserved only for major league players, and an upgrade from the H-2B visas, generally used by temporary foreign-born workers in numerous industries.
		By the same token, very few of these youngsters statistically make it to the major leagues and even prior to their new visa status, hundreds of minor leaguers were brought to the U.S. each year only to be relieved of their services.
	www.americanchronicle.com /articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=20897 (1827 words)

	The Official Site of Major League Baseball: Official Info: Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In total, 27.3 percent of the 830 players (750 active and 80 disabled) on rosters as of April 4, 2004 were born outside the 50 United States.
		Additionally, 47.6 percent of the 6,117 Minor League players signed to professional baseball contracts (as of 4/4/04) were born outside the 50 United States.
		Below is a complete list of the Major League Baseball players on 2004 Opening Day rosters that were born outside the 50 United States and a list of the countries that are represented by Minor League players.
	www.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/mlb/news/mlb_press_release.jsp?ymd=20040408&content_id=697610&vkey=pr_mlb&fext=.jsp (379 words)

	MSU Baseball News
		If you add these to the juniors MSU baseball has lost, the total number of players that would have been on the 1998/1999 roster if they had not signed pro contracts now stands at six.
		He had a terrible outing on the mound, but showed what kind of player he is by almost hitting it out to tie it in the ninth.
		While Hammond has a big league body with speed and power potential, he has tapped little of his potential, swings and misses at a lot of pitches and struggles on defense." Listed as a potential Top 5 rounder.
	www.genespage.com /msubaseballskuttlebutt/9806msubaseballnews.htm (3088 words)

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	The Baseball Journals » Blog Archive » 27.4% of all MLB Players are Born Outside of US for 2006
		MLB continues as an International game as 27.4% of all players being born outside the US(223 of the 813 players — 747 active, 25-man roster players and 66 players on disabled lists) as determined in a survey by MLB based on Opening Day rosters of the 30 Major League Baseball Clubs.
		Additionally, 2,964 of the 6,568 minor league players under contract in 2006 — 45.1 percent — were born outside the United States, compared to 45.4 percent in 2005.
		The pool of minor league players is comprised of those players who are not on Major League 25-man rosters or disabled lists.
	www.maurybrown.com /?p=113 (435 words)

	Nashville Sounds
		USA Baseball - in coordination with Major League Baseball - today revealed the roster of 24 professional players that will comprise the Olympic Qualifying Team that will be managed by Frank Robinson at the Athens Summer Olympic Games Baseball Qualifying Tournament for the Americas in Panama City, Panama, from October 30 - November 10.
		Outfielder J.J. Davis, who spent the majority of the 2003 campaign in Music City, would have been a third Pirate on the team but he injured his right hamstring on the basepaths last week and was removed from consideration.
		Fans can follow the Team USA action in Panama by logging on to the USA Baseball website at www.usabaseball.com, where there is a direct link to the live scoring feature as well as team statistics, stories and box scores.
	www.nashvillesounds.com /news/news.asp?newsId=859 (765 words)

	The Official Site of Major League Baseball: News: Major League Baseball News
		During the 2007 Series, Caribbean Baseball Confederation president Juan Francisco Puello Herrera announced that down the line Colombia and Nicaragua may be added to the current four-country field, which features Puerto Rico, Mexico, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic.
		Colombia and Nicaragua are slated to play three exhibition games in Nicaragua on Feb. 8-10.
		The current Winter Leagues in Colombia and Nicaragua must meet minimum requirements in terms of field conditions, clubhouse facilities, instruction, equipment and security of the players and fans.
	mlb.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070208&content_id=1797872&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb&partnered=rss_mlb (626 words)

	Israel HighWay
		Shahar Peer is the best female player that Israel has produced, her precocious talents having reaped three Sony Ericsson WTA Tour titles and taken her to 15 in the world rankings, all by the tender age of 19.
		With players from eight countries (the United States, Canada, Israel, the Dominican Republic, Australia, Japan, Colombia and Ukraine), the Israel Baseball League is a small snapshot of the growth of baseball as a truly international sport.
		The players graciously posed for countless pictures and signed anything that was shoved their waygloves, bats, balls, hats, programs, jerseys and anything else that the kids could get their hands on, including a Burgers Bar kosher hamburger wrapper.
	www.high-alert.org (3467 words)

	Major League Baseball (MLB) at AllSports (tm) - For the Fans! By The Fans! (tm) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Raines, who spent 1996-98 with the Yankees, is fifth on the all-time steals list with 807 during a 19-year major league career.
		Raines, who has an opportunity to be a four-decade player, said he is willing to go to the minor league to continue his career.
		On Monday, Rocker was suspended by Major League Baseball until May 1 and fined an undisclosed amount for his "insensitive and inappropriate" remarks in a Sports Illustrated article.
	www.allsports.com /mlb/news/02-01-2000.htm (1938 words)

	The Toledo Mud Hens
		"Major League Baseball would like to thank the 30 Major League clubs for their continuing cooperation in providing USA Baseball with an outstanding group of professional players," said Sandy Alderson, Executive Vice President, Baseball Operations for Major League Baseball.
		The final roster includes 10 players with Major League experience, five former first-round picks from Major League Baseball’s First-Year Player Draft, and 10 players that have played for USA Baseball in the past, including a pair of Olympic gold medalists from Sydney in 2000.
		In addition, USA Baseball has learned that three countries that were originally scheduled to participate in the Olympic qualifying event - Aruba, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic - have dropped out.
	www.mudhens.com /PressRelease.asp?prID=146 (389 words)

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