>>Baseball is spreading to be more of an international sport. This year, in the US major leagues, a significant number of players come from other countries. There are nearly 100 players from one of them, either Venezuela or the Dominican Republic, can't remember which it was. Other countries represented include most of central America, Japan, and South Korea.
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>So in any international competition you actually get to see the teams representing these countries? From what you say, I get the impression that the phenomenon is limited to "US major leagues".

In fact, in the Olympics, you see teams from all these different countries and, in fact, in last year's Olympics, the US didn't win a medal. There's a World Baseball Classic scheduled for next March.

Tamar