It’s almost the stuff of legends and epic children’s stories. Yet the Atlanta Braves wrote this book – and indeed continue to add new chapters long after the initial release. It’s a story about the former Dutch colony of Curaçao and how baseball became a thing.
Curaçao is a slipper-shaped island country roughly 50 miles off the coast of Venezuela – ESE of Aruba in the southern reaches of the Caribbean Sea.
While a ‘country’, it still isn’t entirely independent – Curaçao’s still under the ultimate authority of the Netherlands, yet has autonomy for most of its affairs under a “Unitary parliamentary representative democracy”.