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Players and coaches stop practice in order to look for missing balls at the baseball park.

Baseballs sit on a bench at the 'Play de Mexico' where baseball players from the Escuela de Sosa practice.

Players (l) David Baez and Franklin Ortiz run during training at the 'Play de Mexico' in the town of san Pedro de Macoris in the Dominican Republic. Coaches and players are from the Escuela de Beisball Sosa. Since the school opened, five teenagers…

Oswaldo Perez Brito gets ready for practice at the 'Play de Mexico' (Ballpark of Mexico) in the Dominican Republic.

Simon Soriano during practice at the Plaza de Mexico in the town of San Pedro of Macoris. Soriano dreams of making it to the Cubs or New York Yankees so that he could buy a car and a big house for his widowed mother and brothers.

Coach Julian Jose from the Escuela de Beisball Sosa provides instruction to players Freddie Ferrand ( 1) an Oswaldo Perez Brito.

Simon Soriano during practice at the Plaza de Mexico in the town of San Pedro of Macoris. Soriano dreams of making it to the Cubs or New York Yankees so that he could buy a car and a big house for his widowed mother and brothers.

El Play de Mexico in San Pedro de Macoris, a baseball park in one of the poorest neighborhoods of this town is where Sammy Sosa got his start. The Baseball School is but one of several Sosa projects in this town in the Dominican republic.

baseball player Sammy Sosa's mother Lucresia sits next to a picture of him at her new home in the Dominican republic. Last year for mother's Day Sammy Sosa gave his mother and eight room house. 'Everything I need, he gives me,' she said.

Army mechanic Brian Davis and Navy corpsman Kieshan Dobrzenski don't ride the bulls but enjoy each other's company along the fence of the corral during the rodeo.