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Beisbol en Espanol: Victor Martinez
- Updated: September 27, 2016
As part of the Detroit Tigers Hispanic Heritage Month celebration, the club will be featuring some pieces of content from Tigers Magazine. The following Q&A appeared in the third edition of Tigers Magazine.
1) You were born and raised in Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela. How is it there?
Born and raised in Ciudad Bolivar. There are not many things to do there. It is very big, there is Ciudad Bolivar and Puerto Ordaz, in the state of Bolivar. There are farmlands and ranches, it is more agricultural.
2) Was that the point where you started to love baseball?
Since I was little. We liked baseball, but it was never anything serious. We liked it and we played and then we realized that there was a possibility that we could play baseball professionally. That was where it got more serious, because we trained, ran harder — but that wasn’t until we were around 15 years old.
3) Baseball is the most popular sport in Venezuela, right?
Baseball is the No. 1 sport in …
