Estadio Tetelo Vargas on the north side of Hwy 3 in San Pedro de Macorís is home to the baseball team called the Estrellas Orientales (the Eastern Stars). During big games you'll get cheerleaders and marching bands through the stands – quite a contrast for those used to Major League Baseball in the USA!
Despite being ridiculed as perennial underachievers in the six-team Dominican Winter Baseball League due to their prolonged drought without a championship (their last was 1968), San Pedro is a baseball prodigy factory, a centerpiece of a country that has given birth to more Major League Baseball players than any other outside the US (perhaps explaining their sad track record – all the great players bolt for the big leagues).
