Robinson Cano passed around a phone as his teammates took turns receiving congratulations from Dominican Republic President Danilo Medina.
That's what we're focused on now -- working closely with our partners: the Haitian government, the United Nations, and many organizations and nations -- friends from Argentina and France, from Dominican Republic and Brazil, and countries all around the world.
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We have Colombian Americans, Americans who originate from the Dominican Republic, from Guatemala, from Mexico, who are constantly contributing to the vitality and the strength of the United States.
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In contrast to the National Basketball Association, a strong European presence that counts players from 34 countries on its teams, over 80% of MLB's 241 foreign-born players hail from Latin America or Asia, including 91 from the Dominican Republic, according to figures from the league.
While Cuba and the Dominican Republic are of similar size and baseball pedigree, an analysis from the National Foundation for American Policy found there were only four Cuban baseball players on the 40-man rosters of Major League baseball teams in 2006, compared to 81 players from the Dominican Republic.
Earlier Monday, Jorge Puello, a Dominican attorney who said he was hired to represent the group, said they had authorization from the Dominican Republic to bring the children across the border.
Currently, 25 percent of the players on minor league squads hail from the Dominican Republic.
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Since 1956, at least 542 players from the Dominican Republic have found their names on MLB rosters.
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Cordero's account was corroborated by Tejeda, who is also from the Dominican Republic.
He relates especially well to patients from the Dominican Republic, Mexico and Guatemala, many of whom are in the country illegally.
The New York suspects were U.S. citizens originally from the Dominican Republic who lived in the New York City suburb of Yonkers.
Maldonado is accused of coordinating the shipment of heroin and sometimes cocaine, using couriers from the Dominican Republic to the United States.
Rosanna somehow managed to monitor the entire thing from the Dominican Republic.
Fortuna, from the Dominican Republic, improved to 22-0 with his 15th knockout.
People have driven from the Dominican Republic, and it's taken -- I saw somebody that said it had taken 10 hours to drive.
In the US, women immigrants from the Dominican Republic are living dramatically different lives to the ones they left behind, according to researchers.
According to Venezuelan state-run National Radio and the state-run Venezuelan TV station, Bouquet was arrested in 2009 with three men from the Dominican Republic.
Mejia already was a little behind after his arrival to camp from the Dominican Republic was delayed because his visa was flagged for an apparent random identity check.
Today he is the only jockey from the Dominican Republic to win the Kentucky Derby -- doing so just weeks after his nation also won the World Baseball Classic.
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As there are no organised tours to Haiti from the Dominican Republic, and very few taxi drivers willing to take the risk, finding a well-disposed man-with-a-van in Santo Domingo was like pulling teeth.
That big move came when Cashman gambled his can't-miss top prospect, the slugging catcher Jesus Montero, for Pineda, a 6-foot-7 flamethrower from the Dominican Republic who became an All Star in his 2011 rookie season.
The Daily Caller began publishing stories on its website about Menendez and Melgen on Nov. 1, when it reported that two women from the Dominican Republic said Menendez paid them for sex earlier in 2012.
The current selection includes the Venezuelan Rio Caribe, which Mr. Masonis described as tasting like brownie batter, the fruit-forward signature Ambanja from Madagascar and the bolder Elvesia from the Dominican Republic, with notes of dried plum.
Whether or not the Dominican Republic secures its place as champion of the 2013 World Baseball Classic, one thing is certain: The influx of MLB players from the Dominican Republic shows no signs of slowing down.
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Back from helping the Dominican Republic win the World Baseball Classic, Reyes is eager to help his new team contend in a tough AL East.
Many cigars sold as Cubans still contraband in America under the 1962 U.S. trade embargo are really made with tobacco from Nicaragua or the Dominican Republic.
Resorts from Maine to the Dominican Republic offer the most options for entertaining big groups, with multi-bedroom accommodations to keep your crowd together.
Robert Menendez, who has maintained all along that he never paid prostitutes for sex, said he is looking forward to whatever evidence emerges from courts in the Dominican Republic to vindicate him.
He is also gathering support from manufacturing coalitions in the Dominican Republic and Honduras.
At the other end of the economic scale, migrants come from impoverished Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
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