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Pirates in the Caribbean: Mining for diamonds

Bucs Dugout found this 11/30/2008 on post-gazette.com

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- It is 9 a.m., and the November sun is searing this walled-off urban minefield of a baseball diamond, where Sadid Frias has filed into a fidgeting line of 17 hopeful teenagers. The tryout is about to begin, and the talent on hand -- most of it ushered here by ...