SANTO DOMINGO, D.R. — Shortly after taking a circuitous route from the press conference room at Estadio Quisqueya, across a well-manicured field, through the concourse under the ballpark and past the ...

From Washington Heights to Santo Domingo, Dominicans love to use the best of herbs and spices when cooking meals and concocting beverages. Beyond just packing our sustenance with elite levels of ...

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic —The Red Sox will roll out two of baseball’s biggest Dominican stars for Saturday’s opener of the two-game exhibition series with the Rays, as Hall of Famers Pedro ...

LAWRENCE — Latin music boomed from speakers as baseball fans packed into a popular downtown restaurant here Saturday to watch the Red Sox take on the Tampa Bay Rays in an exhibition spring training ...

No country, other than the United States, has contributed more players to Major League Baseball than the Dominican Republic. All 30 MLB teams have an academy on the island, which is home to 11 million ...

BOSTON, Mass. — Xander Bogaerts. Rafael Devers. Brayan Bello. All three eventually became impact players for the Red Sox, but long before they reached the majors each signed with the club as teenagers ...

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — For Rays centerfielder Jose Siri, it was the flag, a handheld version of his native country’s colors that he waved as he ran onto the field, stirring the attention ...

The Red Sox officially signed 17-year-old Dominican center fielder Vladimir Asencio on Monday, according to an industry source. Monday is the first day of the 2024 amateur international signing period ...

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Pedro Martinez certainly is doing his part. The Boston Red Sox legend and Major League Baseball Hall of Famer is not just known for his skills on the field, but also for the countless people he has ...

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Some would argue hip-hop had many beginnings. First in jazz, in the form of scat singing and rhythmic speech patterns. Later in disco, when in a last-ditch effort to combat the day's anti-Black and ...