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Amaury Telemaco was devastated this winter when, on a single January night, two professional baseball players died in separate car crashes in the Dominican Republic.

As the Latin American pitching coordinator for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Telemaco works every day with young talents like Yordano Ventura and Andy Marte, the two players killed. And he is painfully aware that such tragedies have become a grim pattern in his home…