Anthropologist Alan Klein’s books about this activity as a source of national pride include one partly named for “sugar” and one subtitled “A Tale of Two Laredos.” A site for this activity named Latinoamericano in Havana is the second largest of its kind in the world, while another site in San Juan’s Hato Rey district is named for a pioneer in this activity, Hiram Bithorn. Bottle caps are used in a variant of this activity called vitilla. Young boys are recruited by buscones for this activity’s academies in the Dominican Republic. This activity is less popular in the Commonwealth Caribbean than a similar sport from Britain that [emphasize] instead has bowlers and wickets. For 10 points, name this American sport whose foreign-born players have given credence to the title of “World Series.” ■END■
ANSWER: baseball [or béisbol; or juego de pelota; prompt on sports until read] (Alan Klein wrote Sugarball: The American Game, the Dominican Dream and Baseball on the Border: A Tale of Two Laredos. The British sport is cricket.)
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