Spring Break Thoughts #265 By Hank Silverberg I'm on Spring Break this week, so I have been watching a bit of the World Baseball Classic on TV this weekend. It's wonderful to see how America's pastime has grown into a worldwide sport with teams from more 20 countries competing. That's increased from 16 teams in 2017. Many of those teams have MLB players on their rosters, either born in or with connections to other countries. Many of them play for the Dodgers or the Red Sox or any of the other 28 teams during the MLB season. It really is a small world. Team USA is loaded with All-Stars, but other teams have lots of talent as well. Xander Bogaerts plays for the Netherlands because he's from Aruba, a Dutch "constituent" country, and former Red Sox Ryan Lavarnway was catching for Israel because he's Jewish. You probably know about the professional leagues in Korea, Japan and Mexico, because their best players often end up p