Baseball falters in Puerto Rico - Interest in the sport is steadily declining in the birthplace of Clemente and many others who became major league stars.

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Posted on: February 18th, 2008
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“Enter Eduardo Figueroa’s Mexican restaurant in Old San Juan and the first thing you notice are New York Yankees pinstripes, the ones the former 20-game winner wore during his eight-year big league career, encased in glass as if they were pages from the Magna Carta.

And come to think of it, they might as well be. Because while baseball hasn’t yet become a museum relic on the island, the sport has suffered from such a decline in popularity in recent years, many young Puerto Ricans now say they prefer basketball, volleyball, video games and even hanging out at the mall to what was their parents’ national pastime.”*

*From: http://www.latimes.com
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