The drama of the dual identity!

A sack of cassava, which he same helped to sow and harvest, was Roberto Hernández Heredia in the head when Anazario Carmona ordered him to leave the capital to play baseball.

The hoe and the machete with which to 17 years helped parents Linda and Sijo to prepare the soil and plant family conuco, were left behind and they were replaced with a glove and a ball of baseball.

Eventually, his real name was also replaced by Fausto Carmona because that could realize his dream of being professional baseball and out of poverty.

There was a consensus in the family and neighborhood that "as it didn't for studies" the best was let him try his luck in baseball, a sport played little in Brownfields that function as play in this community where to get there to run the risk of crossing three times the Guanuma River riding, "a horse", on foot or by vehicle.

Here the u000aElementary becomes difficult.

"Carmona" arrives at the capital in 1999
in April 1999, "Alfi", as it is mottled Roberto, joins the program of baseball that Carmona, a family friend who first emigrated to the city, and in just a year it is presented to Joshua Herrera, then listens for the Cleveland Indians, who signs as pitcher for a bonus of $9,000. In the signature involved two scouts from top Cleveland, Winston full and René Gallo.

The bolting and humble boy was Fausto Carmona, who now sleep you has become a nightmare, and figure as the villain in a film that not only recorded only.

History was known by all, but neither don Sijo wants to talk about the drama that today lives its stem. Perhaps why did not he that the drafters of LISTÍN DIARIO crossing the fence in the front of the housing built his son Fausto Carmona (?) at the foot of the hill where before u000aThere was a ranchito.

"Do not want to speak, do not want to talk about..." "Now that is going to solve", says Sijo with more hope than certainty, as it recedes from the journalists

The economic boom achieved by "Alfi" has not changed the way down-to-Earth lifestyle of their parents or he seduces so leave the field, where they live surrounded by coconut walks, mandarins, foods and roosters fight.

Or the first or...
Anazario Carmona is the only one that gives the front and anticipates that the practice of double identity will not conclude for now in the country if MLS persists in considering old novices with 20 or 21 years of age.

"The restrictions have put schools in major league baseball for the signing of the boys makes difficult that a boy of that age, with conditions, sign." He is not the first nor will be the last. "Front and behind him there are many who, even as retreated," he says.

"Will appear many" u000a"Fausto Carmona', 'Leo Núñez' many, many 'Adriano Rosario'", warns while meeting other players who have been involved in similar scandals by impersonate your identity.

Winston - Chilote-full, who until a few years ago was the Cleveland representative of Dominican Republic, clarified that no one has to do with the alteration of identity that was made to the today-pitcher in major league baseball could sign with another name and three years less.

Their leader in the greater, the Manny Acta, Dominican has refused to comment on the case because he understands that it is up to the management of the club.

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