The presence of these young people in the country was the product of the existing agreement between the Office of the National Baseball Commissioner and that nation.
Santo Domingo.
The Office of the National Baseball Commissioner carried out a series of activities with a Colombian baseball team that remained in the country for several days as part of the work agreements that the entity that governs baseball in the Dominican Republic has with the sister South American nation.
Junior Noboa, National Baseball Commissioner, said that the Colombian team during their stay in the Dominican visited part of the baseball complexes located in the towns of Jubey and Boca Chica, where they received training with qualified coaches of this discipline, in addition to hold several blank matches.
Noboa mentioned that young people between the ages of 13-15 visited the academies in Baseball City, the New York Mets and Yankees, the Anaheim Angels, and the Arizona D-Backs, among others.
They also had a reception at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which was led by the institution’s deputy minister, José Julio Gómez, the Colombian ambassador to the country, Daniel Cabrales, also deputy minister Carlos De la Mota, and the director of diplomacy, María Alexandra Castillo.
Already at the Foreign Ministry, they heard words of motivation from the executives Gómez, Cabrales, De la Mota and Castillo, who urged them to continue working hard and seriously, in order to see their dreams of achieving a signature for baseball come true.
“For a week we had this Colombian baseball team and it was a great combination of training, party celebrations, educational talks and visits to historical places such as the Colonial Zone, among other things,” Noboa said, highlighting this new activity that is generated by the agreements established several months ago between the Dominican Republic and Colombia.
Also, and during their stay in the country, the baseball team received a masterful educational talk by former major leaguer, Miguel Tejada, who urged the group to stay full-time dedicated to the practice of baseball.
“It is something that will benefit you enormously, “If you decided that your future would be hand in hand with baseball, then you must work 100 percent to achieve your goals,” were some of the words of the former player who played with the Athletics , Orioles, Giants,
