It's often said that the Dominican Republic's greatest export is baseball. Some of the world's greatest players, past and present, to ever put on a Major League Baseball uniform are Dominican and many ...

New York City streets have long been home to the echo of spaldeen balls reverberating off potholes and scaling the brick walls of apartment buildings. A game that required very little in the way of ...

FORT MYERS, Fla. — Vitilla has been very good to Boston baseball. The Dominican Republic gave the Red Sox Manny Ramirez, David Ortiz, Pedro Martinez, Hanley Ramirez, and now Rafael Devers. And all of ...

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A game that started in the Dominican Republic is now being played outside one of the most iconic ballparks in the country. Dozens of players joined the second annual Red Bull Clasico de Vitilla on ...

A Dominican tradition has taken over Macombs Dam Park in the Bronx. "Vitilla," or Dominican baseball, is a popular game played with broomsticks and plastic bottle caps from 5-gallon water bottles. Red ...

Travel down to the Dominican Republic where we learn about the game that has been the foundation to success for so many Major League Baseball players.

Many Dominican baseball players grew up playing bottlecap whiffle ball, also known as Vitilla. Vitilla is like stickball and is played with a broomstick and the cap of a water jug. Watch the video ...

Clip (Dirty) - Vitilla Episode 1 of URBAN RECREATION dives into Vitilla, a form of baseball played in New York City. 2:56 min ...