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baseball  

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  • Baseball, one of the most popular games in the United States, Canada, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Panama, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic, and arguably the national pastime in several of these countries, entered La Era de Oro, or the Golden Age, for Latin American born players in the 1990s. By 2006, 192 or 23.6 percent of all Major League Baseball players had been born in Latin America. [Source: Encyclopedia of U.S.-Latin American Relations; Baseball]

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