Afternoon civics

Here's something interesting in Hoy: an initiative to teach history and civics to players at Dominican academies. Great idea, and god speed. Immediately wonder if they plan to include Venezuelans (and Mexicans and Panamanians and etc.) in the classes—which sound like they would focus on the DR—and what that might be like, but it's easy to talk about providing an education to pro ballplayers, another thing to actually do it.

By the way, I'd like to pepper this blog with news and comment generated outside the U.S. I've got a sense of where to look in the Dominican papers, but if anyone wants to recommend a baseball writer from elsewhere in Latin America, please do. I also hope to touch down in other parts of the world on occasion, as time allows...