I was born in the Dominican Republic. That means that I get a lot of baseball questions -- from the merely innocent "did you play baseball growing up?" to the clueless "can you introduce me to Big Papi?"

Those questions always surprise me, because when I think of my childhood in the island I don't think of baseball. I think of trees and sand and music -- and I think about fashion.

Specifically, I think of Oscar de la Renta.

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