Dominican Republic, Baseball Nirvana

The Dominican Republic exports include all the items that you would expect from a Latin American country. Things like coffee, sugar cane, tobacco (cigars, world renowned) citrus fruits, pineapples, cocoa. They export nickel and some precious metals.
Perhaps there most visible export is not what you would consider a regular export. The nation of the Dominican Republic has over the years exported many great baseball players such as Moises Alou, and his son Jesus. Tony Fernandez, the long time short stop of the Toronto Blue Jays hailed from San Pedro de Macoris, a gold mine for baseball scouts. Another Toronto Blue Jay from the Dominican Republic was Jorge Bell. Bell played left field and designated hitter.

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