San Pedro de Macoris:
San Pedro de Macoris is industrial port city 40 miles or so east of Santo Domingo isn’t much to look at poverty-stricken and neglected, it’s suffered from the lagging fortunes of the local sugar industry and from severe damage by Hurricane Georges in 1998.
But San Pedro is of interest to avid baseball fans who like to pay homage to the place that has produced a remarkable number of Major League stars such as Sammy Sosa, Rico Carty, George Bell, Julio Franco, Joaquín Andujar, Juan Samuel, and Tony Fernandez.
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