On his way to 500 career homeruns, Dominican slugger Manny Ramirez is passing some exclusive company. The Washington Heights raised player hit his 494th and 495th career dingers of Yankee pitcher Mike Mussina and led the BoSox to the 7-5 drubbing of the hated NY Yankees.
Major League Baseball has decided to honor the participation of Dominicans in MLB by changing the name of one of the league’s teams. Although no word on which team will have its name officially changed or when the change will come, MLB director of Press and Communications Dick “Bugsy” Malloy said that three teams [...]
Dominicans make up 10.7% of the 750 baseball players on the Major League Baseball rosters, as Listin Diario points out today. A total of 79 Dominicans are on the rosters, but there are several on the injured list. This means that 90 Dominicans could be playing ball this season. Of the group, 39 are [...]
New York.– Pedro Martinez limited the Nationals to two runs on five hits while striking out four and walking none in five innings as the Mets ran their winning streak to six games with an 8-2 victory Friday.
Martinez, who regularly hit 87-88 mph with his fastball, felt so good after his 71-pitch outing that he [...]
Dominican basketball player Francisco Garcia will soon be joining an exclusive group. The Sacramento Kings forward will soon become the sixth Latino player in NBA history to score more than 100 three-point shots in an NBA season. He will also become the first Dominican player to do so. At the moment Garcia has 97 [...]
The cream of world archery competitors will be in Santo Domingo for the Meteksan Archery World Cup, being held on 1-5 April. The event is organized following International Archery Federation (FITA) rules and the World Cup-EMAU (Mediterranean and European Union) rules for 2008, in both divisions: recurve and compound. The event will take place [...]