"'The gringos may have invented the game,' a grinning teenage boy boasts to the camera in Spanish, as he’s sprawled out with a couple of buddies on their bunk beds in a spartan cinder-block dormitory. 'But we’re better at it.' I had a brief moment of nationalist reaction to this statement, which comes about midway through 'Ballplayer: Pelotero,' a gripping documentary that takes us inside the largely closed world of youth baseball training and recruitment in the Dominican Republic. But you can’t say the kid is wrong, objectively speaking."
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