Immigrants Make It a Truly World Series
It has been an exciting World Series 2016, more for Cleveland Indians fans than Chicago Cubs ones. Ahead in the series 3-1, Cleveland is on the verge of becoming World Champions.
Stuart Anderson of Forbes focuses on the truly global nature of the 2016 World Series. This World Series has players born in at least 13 different countries. The leading country of origin for players on 2016 Opening Day rosters (and disabled lists) was the Dominican Republic (82 players), followed by Venezuela (63) Cuba (28), Mexico (12), Japan (8), South Korea (8), Canada (6), Panama (4), Colombia (3), Curacao (3), Brazil (2) and Taiwan (2).
Today, approximately 26 percent of major league baseball players are foreign-born, a more than five-fold increase from the 1940s.
In the World Series, the Chicago Cubs have 6 foreign-born players and the Cleveland Indians have 5 foreign-born, players on their rosters.
Carlos Santana, born in the Dominican Republic, hit a home run for Cleveland in Game 4.
KJ