These Newest Texans Flip Bats and Throw Gas [Video]

WHO: The Latin American League’s baseball championship weekend.

WHAT: Recent immigrants to North Texas coming together to form a multicultural “Boys of Summer,” with teams representing countries of origin from Venezuela to the Dominican Republic. 

WHY IT’S SO GREAT: Cristofer Rodriguez started playing baseball in his home country of Venezuela when he was three. The now nineteen-year-old moved to the United States last year and, along with working his maintenance job and planning to complete an English course, he knew he wanted to continue playing ball any way he could.

Enter Darwing Jove, a fellow Venezuelan who works as a maintenance supervisor for a Dallas apartment complex, with a side hustle as a content creator. He made a video of a trip he and his wife took to Yankee Stadium a few years ago that went viral, launching a part-time social media career with hundreds of thousands of followers on Instagram and Facebook, primarily Latin American immigrants living …