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	Antonio Alfonseca - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Antonio Alfonseca (born March 16, 1972 in La Romana, Dominican Republic) is a right-handed pitcher in the Texas Rangers organization.
		He was signed by the Rangers to a minor league contract in January of 2006.
		This biographical article relating to a baseball pitcher is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Antonio_Alfonseca (229 words)

	Informacje z calego swiata w pigulce.
		The President of the Dominican Republic appoints the cabinet, executes laws passed by the legislative branch, and is commander in chief of the armed forces.
		The Dominican Republic is situated on the eastern part of the second-largest island in the Greater Antilles, Hispaniola.
		The Dominican Republic enjoys a growing economy and a 2007 GDP per capita of $9,208, in PPP terms, which is relatively high in Latin America.
	miki.futureweb.pl /?title=Dominican_Republic (8195 words)

	SI.com - SI Writers - John Donovan - Inside Baseball - John Donovan: A new game face - Friday July 11, 2003 12:09 PM
		In all, 230 players, or 27.8 percent of the players on 25-man rosters and the disabled list at the start of the season, were born outside of the 50 states.
		In 1997, 19 percent of major leaguers were born outside of the 50 states.
		There are 2,851 minor league players, or 46 percent of those signed to pro contracts, who were born outside of the 50 states.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /inside_game/john_donovan/news/2003/07/11/international_players (1637 words)

	Major League Baseball Players Association: Players Trust
		Major Leaguers donated hundreds of thousands of dollars for food, clothing and other necessities for the families displaced by hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma.
		Major Leaguers are committed to sharing the game they love by providing opportunities for kids to play and to learn the life skills that can be taught on a baseball field.
		Major League Baseball Players Association trademarks and copyrights are the property of the MLBPA.
	mlbplayers.mlb.com /pa/trust (612 words)

	Image:Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Image:Flag_of_the_Dominican_Republic.svg (335 words)

	Dominicanrepublic.eu
		The Dominican Republic was the site of the first permanent European settlement in the Americas after Greenland, and became the first point of colonization in the Western Hemisphere by explorers from Europe.
		The politics of the Dominican Republic takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of the Dominican Republic is both head of state and head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
		Although Dominican economic groups have called for amnesty for Illegal Dominicans living in the US;children and grandchildren of Haitian immigrants in The Dominican Republic are systematically denied birth certificates as well as access to education and health care [30].
	www.dominicanrepublic.eu (4119 words)

	SI.com - SI Writers - Mike Fish - Straight Shooting - Mike Fish: Where did the black baseball players go? - Friday May ...
		That’s down from 27 percent in 1975 and 17 percent as recently as 1992 (the percentage of white players is down to 60 percent from 67 percent in 1992), according to figures compiled by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida.
		Baseball is the No. 1 sport in places like the Dominican Republic, where there is no tug from basketball and football for potential prospects.
		Of the almost 6,200 players in the minor leagues, 46 percent were born outside the U.S. Mike Fish is a senior writer for SI.com.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /inside_game/mike_fish/news/2003/05/15/straight_shooting (1594 words)

	Boston.com / Sports / Baseball / Steroids rules tripping up Latin players (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Players from Spanish-speaking countries are getting tripped up by baseball's steroids policy at a disproportionate rate, raising concerns that they don't understand the rules on banned substances -- including over-the-counter supplements bought back home.
		Rob Manfred, executive vice president for labor relations in the commissioner's office, says baseball has educational programs on performance-enhancing drugs in both English and Spanish, and that there is a special program in the Dominican Republic rookie league program that provides individualized counseling from Dominicans for players who test positive there.
		Porfirio Veras, the Dominican Republic's national baseball commissioner, attributes the problem to "buscones," the middlemen who train players and then try to sign them with major league organizations, often for a cut of the money.
	www.boston.com /sports/baseball/articles/2005/05/04/steroids_rules_tripping_up_latin_players?pg=2 (581 words)

	ESPN.com - More than half suspensions were for Latin players
		Three of the five players suspended under the big league policy were born outside the United States: Minnesota reliever Juan Rincon (Venezuela), Tampa Bay outfielder Alex Sanchez (Cuba) and Texas pitcher Agustin Montero (Dominican Republic).
		At the minor league level, 24 of the 47 players suspended this year (51.1 percent) were born in Latin America, with 11 from Venezuela, 10 from the Dominican Republic, two from Mexico and one from Puerto Rico.
		According to statistics compiled by the commissioner's office, 23.5 percent of the 829 major league players on opening-day rosters and disabled lists were born in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Mexico, or Venezuela.
	sports.espn.go.com /espn/print?id=2053375&type=story (1001 words)

	WJLA - Steroids Rules Tripping Up Latin Players (Site not responding. Last check: )
		At the minor league level, 24 of the 47 players suspended this year (51.1 percent) were born in Latin America, with 11 from Venezuela, 10 from the Dominican Republic, two from Mexico and one from Puerto Rico.
		According to statistics compiled by the commissioner's office, 23.5 percent of the 829 major league players on opening-day rosters and disabled lists were born in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Mexico, or Venezuela.
		While no minor league statistics are available for this year, as of April 2004 the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Mexico and Venezuela accounted for 40.4 percent of the 6,117 players signed to minor league contracts.
	www.wjla.com /headlines/0505/225856.html (1086 words)

	Dominican Republic - Trust
		The Dominican Republic, (Spanish: República Dominicana, IPA Template:IPA) is a country located on the eastern two-thirds of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, bordering Haiti.
		Template:MorepoliticsThe politics of the Dominican Republic take place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of the Dominican Republic is both head of state and head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
		Baseball is by far the most popular sport in the Dominican Republic and there are many famous Dominicans who play Major League Baseball in the U.S., including Albert Pujols, Sammy Sosa, Pedro Martínez, David Ortiz, Jose Reyes, Rafael Furcal, Vladimir Guerrero, Miguel Tejada, and Manny Ramirez.
	enwiki-trust.cse.ucsc.edu /index.php/Dominican_Republic (3041 words)

	Reference for Dominican Republic - Search.com
		The island of Hispaniola, of which the Dominican Republic occupies the eastern two-thirds and the Republic of Haiti the western third, was inhabited by the Taínos, an Arawakan-speaking people, who may have arrived around A.D. 600, displacing earlier inhabitants.
		The Dominican Republic's first Constitution was adopted on November 6, 1844, and was modeled after the United States Constitution.
		The population of Dominican Republic in 2007 was estimated by the United Nations at 9,760,000 which placed it as number 82 in population among the 193 nations of the world.
	www.search.com /reference/Dominican_Republic (9462 words)

	Miguel Tejada - Biography - The Biographicon
		Miguel Odalis Tejada (born May 25, 1976 in Baní, Dominican Republic), nicknamed "Miggi", is currently the shortstop of the Houston Astros Major League Baseball team.
		On September 22, 2005, ESPN reported that Rafael Palmeiro, who had tested positive for steroids and was suspended for 10 games under Major League Baseball's steroid policy, implicated Tejada to baseball's arbitration panel, suggesting that a supplement given to him by Tejada was responsible for the steroid entering his system.
		Baseball players occasionally use this tactic to extend their careers, since sports team management uses age as a factor in deciding how many years a given player is capable of playing at a high level.
	www.biographicon.com /view/osorn/Miguel_Tejada (2842 words)

	STLtoday - Sports - Special Reports
		While Major League Baseball increasingly has assumed a Latin influence in the last decade, the Cardinals met mostly frustration before shuttering their previous facility in nearby Boca Chica.
		Major League Baseball figures say 38 percent of minor-league players were born outside the United States, with the number expected to approach 50 percent within 10 years.
		Players are housed in two large, well-lighted rooms containing 10 bunks apiece, with a lounge and exercise room only meters away.
	www.stltoday.com /stltoday/sports/special/dominicanrepublic.nsf/0/E482A8319983E882862570C5002805B6?OpenDocument (1899 words)

	Student Work - Deadline in Depth 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		At El Malecón, a popular Dominican restaurant on Broadway, the buzz about the biggest trade in baseball history was in full swing as customers enjoyed creamy fruit-flavored shakes called "batadas" and "bizcocho" or Dominican cake.
		In the Dominican Republic, baseball is a national pastime.
		For this community Rodríguez is one in the list of players that they are proud of.
	www.jrn.columbia.edu /studentwork/deadline/2004/jasso-baseball.asp (548 words)

	Major League Baseball : News : Major League Baseball News
		That is only because Major League Baseball is headquartered in the United States, and Archey is MLB's senior vice president of international operations.
		Archey is head of the inaugural, 16-nation World Baseball Classic that will take place next March 3-20, and he knows that passionate baseball fans in countries from Venezuela to Japan are increasingly asking the same question and substituting the name of their own homeland in that sentence.
		Rodriguez is one of the rare marquee Major Leaguers who have chosen to abstain from the WBC, saying recently that he could not in good conscience choose whether to represent his resident nation (the U.S.) or his heritage country (Dominican).
	mlb.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20051222&content_id=1286740&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb (1594 words)

	Sports Address Lists
		The 2008 Baseball list will continue to have all major league players who have died with their date of death.
		Included in the list for 2008 will be many of the players who debuted during the 2007 season, as long as their home addresses can be confirmed before the publish deadline.
		Continued this year, all players will be listed with every team they played for during their major league baseball career.
	www.sportsaddresslists.com /baseball.html (509 words)

	Discover Dominican Republic
		Even in the poorest rural villages throughout the Dominican Republic, boys are swinging bats in well-tended baseball fields.
		Baseball is the national sport of the Dominican Republic.
		One thing’s without question: The coastal town of San Pedro de Macorís is the undisputed Caribbean cradle of baseball players who make it to las ligas mayores (the major leagues) in the United States.
	www.experiencedominicanrepublic.com /things_2.html (364 words)

	PUERTO RICO HERALD: P.R. Winter Baseball League President Speaks Out
		The sad fact of the matter is that the league's fan base is all but completely eroded and the average fan is well past middle age.
		For starters, Cruz is the first league president to have voice and vote -- he's not just a rubber stamp for the owners as all previous presidents have been.
		In this league the time to watch the players is when they're on their way up.
	www.puertorico-herald.org /issues/2002/vol6n51/PRSportsBeat0651-en.html (1128 words)

	U.S. shuts Cubans out of baseball tournament / Officials cite commerce laws to keep players out of country
		Major League Baseball's plan to host the best international talent in its inaugural World Baseball Classic took a hit Wednesday when Cuba -- a nation famous for its baseball -- was denied admission by the U.S. government.
		Major League Baseball and the players' union plan to challenge the decision and won't announce a replacement until they're convinced their effort to keep Cuba in the tournament has fallen short.
		Besides baseball, boxing is a specialty of Cuban athletes, and, as with baseball, sports fans look forward to the Olympics as a chance to see great Cuban boxers who are not part of the world's professional ranks, and to imagine how those boxers might fare against the pros.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/12/15/CUBA.TMP (893 words)

	It's a 'big hit' - Dominican Republic baseball - or as the locals say 'beisbol'
		Today more than one in six players in the American league is from Latin America, the majority of them coming from the towns located on the south-eastern coast of the Dominican Republic, such as San Pedro de Macoris.
		Not only is the Dominican Republic Baseball season incredible because of all the names from the Dominican 'baseball hall of fame' that it features, teams also commonly recruit up-and-coming American ballplayers who are trying to make it to the big leagues.
		To learn more about winterball or just baseball, just click pro baseball drills and baseball equipment to take you to his site where you can learn more about baseball, baseball drills, baseball equipment, and inspirational stories on his journey to the big leagues.
	www.visiting-the-dominican-republic.com /dominican-republic-baseball.html (669 words)

	MLB Steroid Rules Trip Up Latin Americans (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Players from Spanish-speaking countries are getting tripped up by baseball's steroids policy at a disproportionate rate, raising concerns that they don't understand the rules on banned substances — including over-the-counter supplements bought back home.
		More than half the players suspended for positive tests at both the major and minor league levels were born in Latin America, according to a review of their birth places by The Associated Press.
		As of April 3, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Mexico and Venezuela accounted for 38.6 percent of the 6,624 players signed to minor league contracts.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/05/05/sports/s041454D81.DTL&type=printable (966 words)

	One Major League Baseball Player of Every Nine is from the Dominican Republic (printable version)
		Of these 895 elite players, an astonishing 101 come from the Dominican Republic, including 10 of the 67 all-stars for 2005.
		Canada provides 16 players and Japan 12; seven more players are Cuban, while six are from South Korea, five from Panama, four from Australia, and three from Taiwan.
		The others: Angola, Argentina, Australia, the Bahamas, Belgium, Bosnia, Canada, the Central African Republic, China, Republic of Congo, the Czech Republic, Denmark, the Dominican Republic, Germany, Greece, Haiti, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Mali, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria, the Netherlands, Poland, Senegal, Spain, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, South Africa, Sudan, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.
	www.ppionline.org /ndol/print.cfm?contentid=253421 (555 words)

	Sports 2000 Players - TSN's All-Star Latin American team
		In 1964, Oliva led the league in batting (.323), hits (217) and doubles (43) and was named American League Rookie of the Year.
		He won the AL batting title again with a.321 average, led the league with 185 hits and helped the Minnesota Twins win the 1966 American League pennant.
		He led the league in innings pitched in 1963 and 1968, and he led the league in complete games in 1964 and 1968.
	www.sportingnews.com /archives/sports2000/players/169115.html (1712 words)

	APSE \| Associated Press Sports Editors
		Dominicans have played the game for more than a century and broke into the major leagues in 1958.
		In 1999, 7.8 percent of the players on major-league, opening-day rosters were from the Dominican Republic.
		Baseball players build huge homes, take care of their families and inspire future generations of ballplayers with the tantalizing prospect they, too, will share the sweet fruits of big-league success.
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	Minor League Baseball: News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		MILWAUKEE -- Major League Baseball said on Tuesday that six managers already have been selected to head some of the 16 teams that are participating in next year's inaugural World Baseball Classic, the first international hardball tournament ever to include Major League players.
		Former Major Leaguer Jim Lefebvre leads the budding Chinese national team and has done so since it was formulated two years ago with an eye toward the 2008 Bejing Summer Olympics.
		MLB has committed to an estimated 270 Major League affiliated players for the tournament, and is in the process of determining how many players will come from the 25-man rosters or expanded 40-man rosters of the 30 Major League teams.
	www.minorleaguebaseball.com /app/news/article.jsp?ymd=20051116&content_id=34287&vkey=news_milb&fext=.jsp (703 words)

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