8 Year-Old Makes National News for No-Hitter

Down here, this gets a 300-word article and a color photograph in the nation´s most widely-read newspaper.  The article´s in Spanish, but the point´s pretty easy to grasp.  Some kid in some league in Santo Domingo threw a no-hitter in the ´infantil´division (7-8 year old age group).

If this seems like shameless over-promotion to you, you´re not alone.  To be fair, I´ve never spoken to a scout for a major-league team who admits to paying attention to this kind of publicity.  However, if they did, they would hardly be willing to share it with me, as it´s supposed to be illegal to scout anyone under the age of 16.

For some reason, though, youth baseball, particularly publishing names of Santo Domingo´s best pre-teen baseball players, gets more attention in the nation´s newspapers than the Dominican Summer League.