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Over the years, baseball has become an international game. No longer confined to the United States and Canada, you can find youngsters with bat and ball all over the globe. And they all have one goal: to make it big in the majors. And every time an international player makes that leap, it is inevitably a mark of pride for their home country.
All over [origin country], newspapers have been trumpeting the success of [player] for having been picked up by [acquiring team]. "Our loss is the world's gain", one paper reflected. "True, he won't be able to play in front of hometown fans anymore. But every time he takes the field, the world will know that he came from [country]. And every one of our youngsters watching on TV will think have their eyes widen and think, "that could be me one day."
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