Nate Trosky and Georg Bull have a long-standing relationship. It all began in 1999, Nate came to Germany his first year managing a professional, international baseball team, the Cologne Dodgers, where they won their first ever German Bundesliga Title.

Georg Bull was spending his summers playing baseball in Germany and his winters in Cape Town, South Africa. That year, he chose to play in the Liga Campesina in the Districo Boca Chica, with his Dominican teammate, Henry Guillermo (former Texas Rangers, St. Louis Cardinals, and Hiroshima Carp farm hand). Georg was introduced to the classic Dominican Baseball way of life and he immediately fell in love.

As a result, Georg Bull has been taking the German U 15 national team to Boca Chica every year since 2004 to play and train daily against local academies. He saw many successes as a result including Max Kepler, now right fielder with the Minnesota Twins.

Nate Trosky, Baseball scholar and historian, was taken by the strong Dominican Baseball culture as well when he joined the yearly 17 day adventure in 2008. He´s been coming back ever since, filming, coaching, and studying the Dominican techniques, talking to prospects and coaches, and bringing his own Trosky Baseball teams together with Georg Bull.

So, why the Dominican Republic?

• Approx. 50 % of all Minor League players in the USA hail from this island country in the Caribbean.
• Dominican players are fast, have cannons for arms and a ton of power.
• The MLB is loaded with Dominican superstars and their colleagues from Venezuela, Cuba, Panama and other neighboring countries who have brought a new and exciting atmosphere to the game.
• Almost all MLB organizations operate their DSL academies and complexes in Boca Chica, making this little town, 10 minutes away from the International airport of Santo Domingo, truly the Baseball capital of Latin America.

The success of these players can largely be contributed to Dominican independent scouts (buscones). They have mastered the art of turning kids into professional athletes without the need for sophisticated equipment. They have the passion and desire to do whatever it takes to help these players fulfill their dream of becoming a Major League Baseball player. The dream of the poor, as it´s called in the DR.

From the years spent in Boca Chica we have developed a large clientele of independent scouts, umpires, players, private academies, and coaches and have built a relationship with the staff at the municipality stadium. So, we thought, why not combine these connections and knowledge to form one Academy, where players from all over can come and benefit from this unique experience. A place where American and European players could live and train with their international competition and compete and share their passion and skills with one another.