Making Baseball possible globally - Jay Quinn

Episode von Stories Behind Strength von Carmen Mercedes Preiss · 21. Juli 2026 · 55 min

"He had the business. He had New York. He gave it up for a system that doesn't exist yet."

Jay Quinn played Division I baseball, coached at Columbia, and worked inside Major League Baseball. He had built a life, a working business, a home in New York City. Then he looked at what actually happens to Dominican baseball talent, and he couldn't unsee it.

Most kids chasing the MLB dream in the Dominican Republic never make it past their team's academy. They're released around 19 or 20, no degree, no fallback, no plan B. The system takes everything and gives almost nothing back if the dream doesn't land.

Jay walked away from his life in New York to fix that. Today, through the Baseball Island Foundation in Las Terrenas, he gives kids free, professional-level training, on one condition: they stay in school. In year one alone, that trade produced college scholarships and an MLB contract.

This episode is about what it costs to build the thing you wish had existed for you — and why that cost is worth it.

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