Posted By:
David SmithSHHH. There are Sudanese baseball players but it is a top secret that only a very few select people know about.
There is a secret baseball academy outside of Khartoum in a series of non-descript buildings that works on developing young players into Major League caliber talent. Only the best are "exported" to the US and Japan. The rest, sadly, are shot for fear that the secret will get out.
Those that are exported have their names changed to things like Ichiro Suzuki, Pedro Martinez and Dontrelle Willis to help cover their tracks. Part of these players salaries are given back to the political leadership of Sudan. Some of the money goes to cover the cost of the baseball academy, part is kept by top level officials of the government and the rest is used for miscellaneous Sudanese expenses (mostly fighting civil wars within the country).
To keep the players from telling the secret, all members of their family are rounded up and imprisoned until the players retire.
Yours secretly,
Sudanese Slim