THE LAND OF BASEBALL ⚾️(Dominican Republic)
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The DOMINICAN REPUBLIC and BASEBALL go together like peanut butter and jelly. It is (by far) the most popular sport in the country, and they have sent more players to the big leagues than any other country besides the United States. That is beyond impressive for a country of just 11 million!
Baseball is seen as a gateway for many families to escape poverty, as teenagers as young as 16 years old have the chance to sign multi-million-dollar contracts.
Each one of the 30 MLB teams have a baseball academy in the D.R., and I was lucky enough to be invited to the Arizona Diamondbacks facility and was very impressed by the talent of these young kids.
As a former baseball player and huge fan, I truly had a blast shooting this video over the last few days around the Dominican Republic and I hope you enjoy watching!!
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I've been to the DR 4 times in 4 years (once every year). We had an American vs Dominican baseball match 4 years in a row. We played against kids. We have yet to beat them.
Hahahaha
Lololol
is there pickup baseball there
@@Sam-bi4bo Probably!
@@tevvmusic that’s so cool i can’t wait to go there
I’m Dominican and black this makes my heart happy
Rose quartz 19 is cricket played there
black people is a nice people 👍🏿
I love my fellow Black people around the world 💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿 😍
Tbf, that's all these kids do. They will sadly be skipping school just to go out and practice (not all of them but a decent amount). It's part of the reason our country is somewhat uneducated.
Estrelleta Stop complaining about nonsense
It's nice to see Drew experience our beautiful culture in 🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴❤
Omg I want to visit the DR so bad. I am not a baseball fan by any means but this island seems to have so much to offer!
A mis compas dominicanos, un saludo!
S. Calabrese de donde eres?
DCampusano1 Creo que italia es por el nombre calabrese
The Dr has the best Economy in the Caribbean and Centra America , also offers modern cities like Santo Domingo which is Miami 3.0 and you have Santiago and I’m sure you know about the tourism etc but it’s perfect time to invest for sure !
don’t use God’s Name in vain
I’m Half- Cuban and I gonna say, The Dominicans are right. Baseball is Life⚾️
1:27 this reminds me of my childhood. Everybody, including little girls play baseball in the streets😍🇩🇴 I used to play it in my barrio almost everyday⚾️ It is a joyful sport❤
Best of luck to all of those in the D.R. who aspire to make it to the big leagues. Hopefully, I see you wearing a Yankees jersey!
@Peja Stoyakavic Thank you very much. And yes indeed, go Yankees!
Seriously all the best players come from DR these days 🙌
damn right puerto ricans could neverrr (no hate I love puerto rico)
Their baseball skills are certainly impressive. Didn’t know that each of the MLB teams has an academy in the DR. Hope you cover golf next. DR’s most famous for it’s golf courses.
Yeah but the sport isn't really that popular with the community. But, yeah, it does have a lot of golf courses.
@@joselmel Yes it is, as a Dominican I go outside my house and see kids playing baseball in legit every street, I walk to church with family and there's kids playing baseball before it starts, my dad went to buy a new car from a local dealership where they sell American-imported cars, there were kids playing baseball, we were driving to a store named "La Sirena" there were kids playing baseball along the streets. When they say "baseball is everything" y'all may say "cap" but actually go there maybe and you will see their not joking.
@@joselmel who told you that lie? I grew up playing vitilla and baseball
@@kerchow2062he was talking about golf lol
I'm Taiwanese and really glad to see Figaro in the ending despite he forgot the team name he played for in Taiwan. (the team name is uni-lions)😊
I ❤️ ⚾️! So nice to see it in countries other than the US! Greetings from 🇩🇪!
Thanks for sharing the local life instead of the luxurious resorts! Excited for the future content!
no chance I go to those resorts - this is way better!
The DR is amazing.
Dominican Republic is incredible 🇩🇴
This could’ve been a 30 minute video. I’d love to see you make this one longer. I love baseball
This brought tears to my eyes thank you for documenting my country like this ❤️❤️
USA: finally, a worthy opponent
Jim Meme Anderson
You mean a country who we can drain of baseball players
Sven, Baseball is popular in Japan.
@Sven Stupid? Yea iight. Try n get hit by a ball traveling (spinning fast as fuc) between 65 and 100 mph. Just because its not as physical, you have to be fast as fuc and hella fucing smart.
@Sven Literally every country in Latin America, Caribbean, even Asia and most countries in Europe play baseball there's even world classic baseball leagues which Dominican Republic has won and they even won the Caribe Series too, their pretty good.
Sven and kicking a ball is any better?
You should see a "vitilla" game. It's like a low-cost baseball-ish game played with a stick and the lid of one of those big bottles of water. It has it's own rules and it is a 100% Dominican game, you can see it any neighborhood
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it is cricket la plauita
Baseball is deep in DR. And most Dominicans know someone who played baseball. Growing up, my father's friend and his brother played in the minor leagues. I'm related to an MLB player and my cousin is currently in the minors for an MLB team.
Drew, I love your videos, they're so inspirational, and it's like I'm with you traveling the world. Thanks so much for giving me these experiences, and keep n uploading such content! :) -Philip
Can't wait for the moment to meet you if i ever had the oportunity - Johann, Santiago, Dominican Republic
Awesome. I've been watching your videos for a while and coming across with my country in one of your videos is more than pleasing for me. Keep up the good work bro.
Your right I’m Dominican and everybody loves baseball 😂
do u guys play cricket
Nah we dont
Love baseball, greatest sport ever!! ⚾⚾⚾
Love from Pakistan 🇵🇰😍
When you see kids in the street hitting a plastic water bottle lid a mile with a broomstick and fielding balls with a milk carton glove, you realize how much they love it and will do anything to play the game.
Yes loved this 😍🇩🇴
Drew, just a historical correction. Its widely known that Baseball was popularized as a national sport by the US when they invaded our island nation in 1916, they left many baseball fields behind when they terminated the occupation in 1924. Before 1916 baseball was apparently already know on a smaller scale due to the close US-Dominican ties, those ties brought the DR very close to become an American State when then secretary of state Hamilton Fish tries to annex the DR as a US territory in 1869. So, the history of Baseball in the DR goes beyond the Cuban immigration era.
Thanks for making this video!! 🇩🇴🇩🇴
In my country Bangladesh. Cricket is like the life of our people ❤❤
Just got back from the DR. Such a cool place
My favorite MLB player Jorge Polanco is from DR. And My favorite team is Twins a lot of there players are from DR.
LIL ISAAC I know him, he’s from my hometown and very nice 😊
Baseball is awesome I like to see people loved it.
Baseball is America’s greatest gift to the world
Got to see a game in the Dominican a few years ago! Thanks for the video!
“Baseball is life” Long live Benny the jet Rodriguez
haha love it!!
When you realize
You have never played Baseball before
There are some countries wherein Baseball is Life and some countries that Baseball is almost nonexistent
I want Baseball as Number 1 sport in the world in future
Duchi it's life in the dominican, but it's dead in some european countries
@@Baazigar_007 never gonna happen Football will always stay at n1
Duchi yep welcome to the U.K.😂
@@Baazigar_007 nah football 🏈 would be . But baseball and soccer are cheap sports to play so it’s easy to bring it to 3rd worlds. But I hope American football could translate and go to the world
Waiting so long for DR love him
Los domis mis hermanos y vecinos 🇵🇷✌🇩🇴 whe latinos are the best ⚾️
DR los mejores del béisbol 😎
I can't wait to see canada drew binsky love from yuma Arizona
So happy the D-Backs are doing this new educational program for these kids. As mentioned in the video, only 3% make it to the big leagues. It's good to see a team like the D-Backs giving back to the community by educating all prospects which will help those that don't make it have an opportunity when they go back to their home towns disappointed for not making it.
Great program today I love baseball!
DR love baseball
India loves cricket
I’m super happy that you went to my home country :)
I from USA and Baseball is actually life when hot out baseball is the choice
I’m from the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴
cool
Ok
WE ARE A GROUP OF YOUNG AFGHAN TH-camRS WE LOVE YOU DREW 😊
Keep going!
Drew Binsky thanks drew ❤️
Dammmm the legend replied them
If you stood in you country you would be some old mans butt toy stay humble
NMduke ??? What are you on about tool
Thank you for this! This helped me with my country report. This was helpful because we got to see why the Dominicans liked baseball from a person view.
🇩🇴🇩🇴Viva la Republica Dominicana 🇩🇴🇩🇴
Sports is my religion... My lifestyle ✌️❤️
I love your videos I have been to 45 USA states but not another country
So that's where
Benney "The Jet" Rodriguez was from.
Quote: to us baseball was game but to Benny it was life.
Drew!!! cubs fan, seriously?!?!! ON WISCONSIN!!!!!!!!! GO BREWERS!!!!!!! other than that, great video!
Really that's true
Just like cricket in india 🇮🇳
Just like poverty in *India*
Danny just like joe mama bich
Well what is interesting is that in this case it is not the original colonizer who brought the sport. It came to the DR through Cuba, and then the Americans when the occupied the DR in the 1910s and 20s.
Ankit Banerjee shut up
@@StephaneCalabrese🤦🏿♂️ it came from deported Cubans From America who went to DR
Drew: Land of baseball
Cuba: *¿Qué?*
Kim Jong-un OMG supreme leader!
Kim Jong-un *bows*
Bro order me burgers u have lots I heard.
We are better than Cuba, period.
Im so proud for you Drew! You need 9 countries left! And your at the Jackpot!
Great video drew I play baseball from Scottsdale Arizona
'I'm from Scottsdale too!
Cricket is the life for us in India🏏🇮🇳
In the DR 80% of the population play baseball. The land of baseball.🔥
Loved this video! ❤️🇩🇴
Ur content helps me very much I can get ahead in school thx😊 🙏
I like baseball.
I’m Dominican and I can’t play baseball
I'm filipino and I can't play basketball that good, I'm only good at NBA 2k
Nobody is saying that all Dominicans can play baseball.
And for me cricket is my life❤️
This is amazing
🇵🇷x🇩🇴x🇲🇽x🇨🇺 what home country players do you think are the best PuetroRican🇵🇷,Dominican🇩🇴 , Cuban🇨🇺 Mexican 🇲🇽
That’s facts baseball is my spirit sport(I came from D.R I started playing as a 2 year old
Yay new video finally
When u come back to USA 🇺🇸?
in a week
@@drewbinsky if you swing by Miami let me know
@@drewbinsky please come to burlington!
Drew Binsky can u come to Raleigh NC
Drew Binsky tampa please
Come to Dominica 🇩🇲🇩🇲
lol it's funny because I am Dominican but you are Dominican too! We are same name but total different cultures! lol
Yay Dbacks.
Baseball yesssss ⚾️⚾️⚾️
I love baseball to
Hispaniola is the pearl of the Caribbean’s
Baseball is everything for us Dominican!! Female & Male.
A lot of those Kids are Haitian💯put respect on Them too Players like Miguel Sano, Alfonso Soriano, Sammy sosa, and Vladimir Guerrero are all of Haitian Descent and many more up and coming prospects
This is 100% false.
Thanks 🇮🇳❤️🇮🇳
1:27 parking lots, that could go wrong 😂
LICEY CAMPEÓN
Only Dominicans will get it
MarGame Z Toros del Este 🔥💯
DCampusano1 respeto por ganar la serie 🔥
Great video👍🏼
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THANK YOU for visiting My COUNTRY🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴 THATS THE TEAM I LIKE IN BASEBALL los liceys
0:19 - he talks like David Ortiz - another Dominican
Nice follow up on Baseball Drew...But I want you to also focus on Cricket when you travel to Jamaica and make a vlog on it too :) as we did not see you cover Cricket topic in Pakistan and India :)
*Same Story goes for Cricket 🏏 in Pakistan* 🇵🇰
I don't agree
Your agreement isn't even needed
@@shehramkhan694 Your agreement is needed right??
The mlb should put a team in the dr
I wanna visit the DR. I didn’t play baseball ⚾️ growing up but it looks like a fun sport to try with friends even if u aren’t like MLB level lol
You forgot to mention the reason why they drop out of school so young is because the MLB can sign international players as young as 16 and start scouting them as young as 11 years old. They just recently started making these kids graduate from high school and started emphasizing how important education is. As a baseball fan you should’ve went to San Pedro de Macoris where the majority of Dominican baseball players actually come from. Sammy Sosa, Robinson Cano, Miguel Sano, George Bell, Rico Carty, Jorge Polanco and The Alou brothers are just some of the players that hail from San Pedro. It’s also the most culturally diverse city in the entire country.
I wish I didn’t quit baseball
OMG 2 guys at 4:24 are so cool 😊😚
My uncle and aunt went to the DR for my aunts 40th birthday
Ok
Just like FOOTBALL ⚽ in the African continent
My favorite sport 😊⚾️
Recent new subscriber here. I am enjoying your videos as I love to travel and I particularly like this one since I am an avid baseball fan and have been to the DR (Caribbean World Series in 2012). Keep up the good work and stay safe! BTW, what are the 7 remaining countries?
Do you like cricket or baseball more Drew?
He is from USA. Of course Baseball. But Cricket is better.
its true I'm a prospect for 2022 and I'm 14 I live in dr
Thanks for visiting my country drew :) when are you visiting the capital?
Right now I'm at my brother's first baseball game
nice!