Chapter 2: Beisbol: How the Major Leagues Eat Their Young

This chapter is about how Major League Baseball has expanded into the Latin American countries. This is not a good thing as far as every one thinks. The people from the countries of these players are upset. Their were up set because these players were not getting treated the way they should of. In the book it states how so many Latin players have earned awards in the past couple years. To add to the supremacy of the Latin players, in the 2006 World Baseball Classic the Latin team was very successful. The American team fell to the better teams, like Asian and Latin America. It points out that the World Baseball Classic was pretty much set up for the USA to walk right though it. The USA team had weaker teams in there bracket and home field advantage the whole time. The team also didn’t have to face power houses like the Latin team till later in the tournament. This shows that the baseball community of the United States is very self center and controls a lot of what goes around the sport of baseball.
The chapter talks about a very inspirational player named Mario Encarnacion. Who was talked about being better than Baltimore Oriole’s superstar short stop Miguel Tejada. These two were friends and from the same country. Mario was found dead but was just a side bar in the United States sports pages this shows how unimportant even possible MLB players are to the MLB. What was talked about were the “baseball academies” that were taken place in the Dominican Republic that harvest young talent. These academies were the reason why the people of Dominican Republic were up set with the Major League Baseball system. These player in these academies are being signed for not even close to other players. A majority of the kids who enter these academies don’t ever see a major league or a minor league club. They tend to go back to their poor life style or go to another academy. This chapter showed the greed that the Major League Baseball system has, and its will to take advantage of others.