NewsWhore
01-04-2007, 04:50 PM
Major League Baseball wants to make it as easy as possible for foreign talent to make it to the Big Show, and that's why MLB, according to Diario Libre, is launching a campaign for the State Department to allow baseball players to apply for a different visa to play in the United States. Currently, baseball players entering the US apply for an H2B temporary work visa, but the proposed plan would have athletes enter on P-1 visas. This move would greatly affect Dominican ball players as the DR is the largest exporter of foreign born players to the Major Leagues. Diario Libre reports that 400 new players are signed to contracts every year, and 130 of these are taken to the US to play baseball.
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