Jarlin Garcia had barely begun playing baseball when he was 16 years old.
But that’s when everything changed.
Tragedy struck his family when his 3-year-old sister, Genesis Mabel, drowned in his hometown of Pedro Brand in the Dominican Republic.
“I felt like my family lost its happiness that day,” said Garcia, who still gets emotional when he speaks about his sister. “I just said from that day on that I would give them a reason to live and something to look forward to.”
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