ubervu
Apple iPhone
Nexus One
+ Add
EMAIL ALERTS: SUBSCRIBE
The Play: Baseball in the Dominican Republic
Updated 3 months, 1 week ago
Source: http://billyweeks.com/
- 64 comments on this story
Showing 41 relevant reactions out of 64.
Really great idea.
great photos, but, that is complete bullshit. I go down to the Dominican Republic every year to help build homes in the poor communities. There are lots of people who have made it out of poverty by working hard getting education and starting legitimate business there. Baseball and crime are not the only ways out of poverty.
Great baseball pictures from the Dominican Republic by photojournalist Billy Weeks. http://billyweeks.com/?p=400
Photoreportage : le baseball, une façon de lutter contre la pauvreté en République Dominicaine http://billyweeks.com/?p=400
@eddietours: do you have statistics before "the revolution" to compare the progress ? Did you born in Cuba or in any time of your life live in Cuba as a normal citizen and not as a foreign ? I will glad that you answer those questions.
I could have sworn that for a second I read "Beating the poor with a baseball bat"
What a sensationalist headline, the pics are fine but saying the the only way to succeed in DR is baseball or crime is a fallacy, add being a corrupt politician and maybe you'll be close to the reality. I was born and raise In DR, middle class both parent educators and this is just kinda of an insult to the working class dominican. Just a note, we have a public health system run by the government, ... See all content
I was born in the Dominican too. Middle class family in Santo Domingo.
My school used to face Hipolito's house, which I always found funny. Eh, I was young. I thought it was like facing the white house. (Years ago, by the way.)
Anyways, you're right. I love my Dominican Republic, and it's fun to hear that old phrase. Ya tu sabe', haha.
It's not as bad as everybody thinks
...
See all content
http://billyweeks.com/?p=400 Nice Pictures check them out!
Article too negative. Makes it sounds like every poor person in Dom Rep who isn't a baseball player is a criminal.
Simply isn't true.
Poverty there is like poverty anywhere, including here. Its hard to get out of the slum but its possible. Education. Get a job.
I spent two years in Brazil amongst the poor people - and I have to say, leaving the poverty situation is nearly impossible. If only education and a job were the final solution
it's possible but the odds are overwhelming
Here's a group that is trying to use baseball as a tool to develop young men of character to keep them out of crime and provide them an avenue to greater things.
http://ilovebaseball.org
Fotos incríveis do beisebol na república dominicana http://billyweeks.com/?p=400
Great, just what we need, more uneducated "athletes". Why not educate people? Playing baseball? Seriously?
eating poverty with my dick.
We call DR little NY, literally. DR is like a mirror image of NY except like IRULE said we have way more fun than here in NY... We even drink with the police (although a corrupt police force) buy them a few drinks and your a friend for life..
washington heights without roads
friend for the moment. they'll pop ur ass and throw u into the rive
NY is nothing like an impoverished country....
Great fotoset on fighting poverty with baseball in the Dominican Republic: http://bit.ly/67C9TW (found this on Digg)
I was also born in the Dominican Republic and lived there from. July of 2006 to June of 2009. Baseball is certainly a way of life down there. Almost like Americans and sports. We love our baseball. I got better at baseball playing down there. This article can be true. Not everyone get the same equal opportunities down there. There are a lot of corruption too. We shouldn't feel so bad for the people ... See all content
Ah yes, baseball, that's how all industrialized countries beat poverty.
Get a job at a resort. I'll be heading down there in March.
hopefully someone tag teams ur gf.
Beating poverty through baseball (photo essay): http://billyweeks.com/?p=400 #photojournalism #photography #baseball
Great pics!
I was born in the Dominican Republic and I can say that yes Baseball is a large way out of poverty in the country however the only other option is not poverty. There are actually many opportunities in the D.R. that help people come out of poverty. For example you can go to college without having any money and graduate in any field you would like.
ullshit to you sir, i have lived here all of my life, and while im not upper middle class, im still not poor, im 22 years old, working since i was 18, my mother has also been working forever, my dad left us and never put a penny however dont live anywhere near the line of extreme poverty depicted on those pictures.
Theres a lot of middle lower class too, is not as black and white as you makes
...
See all content
ull shit, i've seen this first hand. theres no middle class in dr, only upper middle class makes me sick. i actually feel sorry when i go to college and see kids my age working for pennies in construction building other facilities for the school. even in baseball there's no money, they put their own time and effort.
Peanut butter jelly with a baseball bat.
I'd like to beat poverty with a baseball bat. That'd be more affective.
That's how I read the title.
kinda the same in cuba. baseball is the way out for a lot of them
also oppression.
Health Statistics > Physicians > per 1,000 people (most recent) by country Cuba: 5.91 per 1,000 people
also cigars
Also boating.
A Brief History of Baseball and the Dominican Republic: For over 100 years, baseball has been at the center of cultural life in the Dominican Republic. Though the origins of baseball in the Dominican aren’t exactly known, historians suggest that baseball first came to the island around the 1880s. Though it is a historical misconception that American Marines brought the game to the island during the ... See all content
Hope, there will be even more sports there!
Poor people...it's all about better leadership of those corrupted banana republics (I didn't mean the country's size, but gov.system)
Follow us
FEEDBACKTwitterFacebook-
DASHBOARD
PRO
- MY KEYWORDS
PRO
-
TOOLS & WIDGETS