THE DOMINICAN Republic’s runner-up will substitute for Puerto Rico’s representation at Caribbean baseball’s premier event next year. The suspension of P.R.’s championship for 2007-2008, allegedly for financial reasons, will have effects beyond the island since, in its absence from the tournament, the host country, the Dominican Republic, will have to field an additional team, namely the second best team from its own tournament.
This would make it the second time, in the 37 years the D.R. has been a participant, the country has two teams competing for the Caribbean baseball’s crown. The other two rivals are Venezuela and Mexico. Juan Francisco Puello Herrera, president of the Baseball Federation of the Caribbean, lamented the situation and regretted not having over the Puerto Ricans, who have not won the Caribbean Series since 2000 but who are nevertheless the Dominican nemesis.
Still, some experts expect the event to maintain a high standard of competitiveness and to draw a large crowd.
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