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- Updated: November 23, 2016
SEATTLE — A common refrain among successful individuals is to “remember where you came from.” For Mariners second baseman Robinson Cano, that motto is more than just words as Thanksgiving approaches.
The seven-time All-Star’s holiday spirit plays out far away from the Major League stadiums where he spends his summers.
The primary mission of Cano’s RC22 Foundation has been building a school for impoverished kids in his hometown of San Pedro de Macoris, a city of about 200,000 on the southeast coast of the Dominican Republic.
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The ensuing RC22 DREAM School — which provides Montessori-style instruction for 102 students ages 3-6 as well as English classes for older students and parents — has been so successful that a second school is now under consideration as Cano looks to help more youngsters in his …
