A huge ten percent of all top players in the US Baseball Major Leagues are Dominicans.  To celebrate, honour and highlight this a film has been made titled "The Republic of Baseball".

It tells the story of how Dominicans have come to influence Americas favourite pastime and will be released to PBS Stations by Latino Public Broadcasting this September to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the man who started it all, Ozzie Virgil.

The producers of the film are Dan Manatt and Rob Ruck.  They say the film is the story of the first generation of extroardinary players who came from the Dominican Republic.  Felipe Alou, Juan Marichal and Manny Mota - extroardinary people who overcame poverty, the brutality of the Trujillo dictatorship, the upheavel of the US invasion during 1965 and racism in America.  It reflects and represents their impact, all that they have endured and how they profoundly reshaped baseball and their nation.