Miguel ends up playing baseball with rejected players from the minor leagues. His odyssey finally brings him to New York City, where at first he struggles to find community and make a new home for himself, like so many before him.
As his dream begins to fall apart, Miguel decides to leave baseball to follow another kind of American Dream. Miguel's play falters, and the increased isolation begins to take its toll on him. Pressure mounts when Salvador, a young pitching phenomenon who used to play with Miguel, is brought up from the Dominican Republic to join the team. The new vulnerability of Miguel's injury, coupled with the loneliness of losing his closest friend, force Miguel to begin examining the world around him and his place within it. While Miguel is on the disabled list, Jorge, his one familiar connection to home in this strange new place, is cut from the team, never fully regaining his ability following an off-season knee surgery. Miguel's domination on the mound masks his underlying sense of isolation, until he injures himself during a routine play at first. However, despite the Higgins' welcoming efforts and Jorge's guidance, the challenge of Miguel's acceptance into the community is exposed in small ways every day, from his struggle to communicate in the English language to an accident of casual bigotry at a local bar. Jorge (Rufino), a veteran player and the only other Dominican on the team, also tries to help Miguel learn the ropes. He is housed by the Higgins family, who take in Swing players every year. He is assigned to their Single A affiliate in Iowa, the Swing.
With the small bonus he earned when he signed with the academy some time ago, he has started to build his family a new house-one that has a bigger kitchen for his mom and a separate room for his grandmother.Īfter learning a devastating knuckle curve, Sugar is invited to spring training by the fictional Kansas City Knights. To his family, who lost their father years before, Miguel is their hope and shining star. His neighbors gather to welcome him back for the weekend the children ask him for extra baseballs or an old glove. In his small village outside San Pedro de Macorís, Miguel enjoys a kind of celebrity status. Miguel "Sugar" Santos (Perez Soto) spends his weekends at home, passing from the landscaped gardens and manicured fields on one side of the guarded academy gate to the underdeveloped, more chaotic world beyond.
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