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Nice little story on Reyes

Jose Reyes is seeking U.S. citizenship. Also, this is pretty cool:

"Reyes isn't abandoning his native country by any means. He's even sponsoring an entire youth baseball league back home - treating the players to everything, from uniforms to equipment.

"'I've got like six or seven teams,' he said. 'I just tried to give everything they needed. I did that for the first year this year. It's gone great so far. It's great to see the young guys in the Dominican, people who don't have a lot of money to buy equipment, that I'm able to help them out. I paid for everything. They don't have to worry about anything. They just have to worry about playing baseball and being there on the field on time.'"

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It always impressed me that he took it upon himself to teach himself English when he got here from DR. He already speaks better than a lot of Latin players who have been stateside far longer than he.

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