Baseball

This past Monday I went with some of the other senior missionaries to a baseball academy owned by the San Diego Padres here in the DR. I am sitting next to Elder Crowder who is a retired teacher who taught at Ricks College for 20 years and coached football there. The facility was beautiful and quite new. They took good care of us. We were able to watch the first game of a double header between the Padre farm team here and the Denver Rockies farm team.

Many major league clubs have farm teams here.  I am told about 15% of the players in major league baseball come from the DR. It is the national sport here. Denver won but it was a close game with one HR by the Padres. The setting was beautiful with the Caribbean Ocean in the background of the picture of the ball field.

Before the games, we were taken on a tour of the facilities and then after the game were taken to the cafeteria and treated to lunch which happened to be hot dogs. It was a fun day and the price was right, free!