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Street baseball

Also known as Pelota · Vitilla · Plaquita · vitilla, plaquita

Illustration pattern only. No free-licence photograph yet: can you suggest one?

Bottle-cap-and-broomstick baseball (vitilla) and a cricket-like bat game (plaquita) played in barrios.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Dominican Republic.

Origins

Usually placed in the era of Age of Contact and Craft (about 1500 to 1800), although its exact origins are uncertain, within the cultural world of The Americas: Caribbean.

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