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The Dominican Republic Sports & Education Academy welcomed its inaugural students on January 14, 2013 in the city that has produced many of the Dominican Republic’s most famous baseball stars. “The dream has become reality,” said Harold Mendez, one of the co-founders of the DRSEA, whose mission is to provide options and alternatives to just …
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The Dominican Republic Sports & Education Academy is now scheduled to open in January 2013, bringing the dream to reality. It has taken a lot of effort, an enormous amount of blood, sweat and tears, and while it may not be opening on the scale we had once hoped it would, we have much to …
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When I arrived in the Dominican Republic four years ago, it was on the eve of the presidential election that propelled Barack Obama into office. In fact, I wrote about it in the second issue of the INFORMER, saying: “I watched the announcement of Obama going over the top alone at home, knowing I was …
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Major League Baseball has announced it will provide released Minor League players from the Dominican Republic an opportunity to enroll in educational programs through its new Educational Initiative Program for Latin America. Major League Baseball signed an agreement to create and support an educational program for Dominican players in partnership with the government of the …
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I finally got a chance to see “BALLPLAYER: Pelotero,” the controversial documentary that bills itself as a gritty look inside the world of baseball in the Dominican Republic. As someone who first documented that world a dozen years ago, and presented a report to Major League Baseball that resulted in MLB opening an office in …
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The Dominican Republic Sports & Education Academy is developing a jazz heritage project as part of its educational mission. Both sports and music provide universal languages of communication, uniting people and cultures with common bonds. Jazz is its own form of artistic expression; Dominicans have taken baseball to a new art form through improvisation and …
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The Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2011 is an eclectic group to say the least, honoring oddball Dennis Rodman, Lithuanian Arvydas Sabonis, ABA pioneer Artis Gilmore, Harlem Globetrotters legend Reece “Goose’ Tatum, and Tex Winter, architect of the triangle offense. But the top of the class, in my opinion, is Thomas “Satch” Sanders, a …
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About a year ago, I was pleasantly surprised to see Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., one of the United States’ pre-eminent African American scholars, strolling in Columbus Park near my home. He told me he was working on a documentary on blacks and Latinos; he has written about the uneasy relationship between the two, …
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The Dominican Republic Sports & Education Academy has always been about making a difference in the Dominican Republic, so it was only fitting that the DRSEA honored a major game changer at its recent second annual “Making A Difference In The Dominican Republic” event in New York City. Lou Melendez, who has held the position …
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Two Dominican baseball players who were caught falsifying their age and identity are back with their teams after being handed suspensions for their transgressions. Roberto Hernandez, formally known as Fausto Carmona, recently rejoined the Cleveland Indians and apologized to the fans and his teammates for the deception that endured for 12 years. “I want to …
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