While looking for other information I came across these numbers some may find interesting. I'm going to try to find similar data for the Carribean.
55% of Venezuelan children between the ages of 7 and 11 years old said that they liked to play baseball, compared to just 12% in the other 17 Latin American countries. When asked if they liked to watch baseball on television, 61% of Venezuelan kids said yes, compared to 12% in the other 17 Latin American countries.
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It could be a little missleading because brasil, Chile, Argentina, peru... are also latin america (actually the vast majority of it) and nobody plays baseball there (except a few Japanese-Brazilians).
It think if you ask kids in the DR, PR, cuba the numbers are not that different from Venezuela (also I also read that soccer grows very fast in the DR and PR)
I watched the Pelotero documentary. It is a bit old (2012) but it was still facinating watching the draft process for 16 year old prospects in the DR. Sano of the Twins was one of the featured players.
