Correa brings hope for Puerto Rico

By Reid Forgrave/@reidforgrave

Courtesy of FOXSports.com

It wasn’t too long ago when a little island in the northeastern Caribbean, a sunny place with less than four million people and only three times the land mass of Rhode Island, was baseball-mad.

Puerto Rico was a hotbed for big-league talent. The standard-bearer was always Roberto Clemente, but the US territory’s love for the game only increased in Clemente’s long shadow. Hall of Famer Orlando Cepeda. Sluggers Ruben Sierra and Carlos Delgado. Recent Hall of Famer Roberto Alomar and future Hall of Famer Pudge Rodriguez. For decades Puerto Rican talent filled All-Star rosters: Juan Gonzalez, Javy Lopez, Carlos Beltran, Jorge Posada, Bernie Williams, Sandy Alomar, Mike Lowell.

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