In soccer-obsessed Argentina, baseball is rising thanks to immigrants

Many young Venezuelans who settled in Argentina brought with them a passion for baseball, a sport in which Venezuela is a world powerhouse. The competition isn’t quite up to Venezuelan levels, but it’s getting there. The World’s Tibisay Zea reports from Buenos Aires.

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