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Baseball game at Estadio Quisqueya (
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Dominicans don't just worship at Sunday Mass: baseball (
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makes a solid
claim for the country's other religion. Hometown fanatics cheer their team on with a pas-
sion equal to bleacher creatures in Yankee Stadium or Fenway Park, but with better dancers
and possibly a wider selection of stadium fare. The Dominican league's six teams go
cabeza a cabeza
(head to head) several nights a week - Estadio Quisqueya in Santo
Domingo is home field for two longtime rivals - culminating in a championship series at
the end of January.
