For us in Latin America, it’s always common to say or think about why there isn’t more assistance provided for Spanish-speaking players. They often leave their native countries for the first time as teenagers without translators to accompany them during their adventures in the United States, a luxury that does exist for players who come from Japan, South Korea and elsewhere in the eastern hemisphere.
The Miami Marlins are doing the next-best thing. They are trying to become the first bilingual professional sports organization in the world, as education coordinator Emily Glass and lead teacher Pamela Mejía de Rodríguez explained earlier this week.