Baseball is passion in Nicaragua, and there’s nothing quite like having a local boy make good as a Major League Baseball pitcher (except perhaps a world champion boxer in one weight class or another). Nicaragua now has two such throwers: Vicente Padilla for the Texas Rangers and Devern Hansack for the Boston Red Sox.
Padilla’s record has not been illustrious of late. And Hansack, the “Monster from Pearl Lagoon,” was sent down to Triple A by the Boston Red Sox during the spring exhibition games, apparently not being up to snuff. But after his pitching display there, he was called right back up in early May. Wouldn’t it be nice to see a Pearllagooner in the pennant race?
