Film: Sugar

Here is a movie for you baseball and immigration buffs — Sugar.  Here is a synopsis:  After he catches the eye of a scout while playing in his native Dominican Republic, baseball prospect Miguel “Sugar” Santos (Algenis Perez Soto) is recruited to play in the minor leagues in the Midwest, where he has difficultly adapting both on and off the field. As much a story about the promise of the American dream as it is about America’s national pastime, this film dramatizes the hard lessons learned when hope and reality clash.

The film sounds like it is inspired by the book Away Games: The Life and Times of a Latin Baseball Player by Marcus Bretón and José Luis Villegas, which tells the story of MLB star Miguel Tejada and scores of other Dominican baseball p[ayers.

KJ