Honors Theses
Creando Las Estrellas: Determining the Quality of the Dominican and Cuban Player Development Systems
Date of Award
12-2015
Document Type
Undergraduate Thesis
Department
History
First Advisor
Douglass Sullivan-González
Relational Format
Dissertation/Thesis
Abstract
Recently, there has been a huge rise in the number of Cuban ballplayers, or peloteros, as the baseball playing Latinos are known. Why do Major League Baseball (MLB) teams go to such lengths to sign Cubans, when a heavy presence already exists in Cuba’s Caribbean neighbor, the Dominican Republic? Through the comparison educational systems, statistics of each country’s elite players, and comparative accounts of the Dominican and Cuban player development systems, the contrast between the two systems is evident. Though the Dominican system creates a large return in the investment MLB teams make in the country, the socialized sport system propels Cuba to create the ideal pelotero.
Recommended Citation
Hearn, Samuel C., "Creando Las Estrellas: Determining the Quality of the Dominican and Cuban Player Development Systems" (2015). Honors Theses. 1559.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/1559
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