The most magical place on Earth: Bartolo Colon's baseball academy has a Bartolo statue
There's a Bartolo statue at his baseball academy
Do you remember the first time you read Harry Potter? How badly you wished that you could run headfirst into platform 9 3/4 and wind up on a magical train, eating magical chocolates and attending a magical school for Witchcraft and Wizardry?
Well, I'm sorry, but that's not real. You will never wake up one day and discover that you can attack bad guys with a light beam unicorn or whatever.
However, there is one place that is even better than Hogwarts. And that place is Bartolo Colon's baseball academy in the Dominican Republic. Rather than a cloak and a wand though, you get something much better -- BC40 hats and T-shirts.
The Bartolo Colon school of hitting is real. Veteran pitcher has a baseball academy for teens in the DR. Players wear BC40 t-shirts & hats.
- Jesse Sanchez (@JesseSanchezMLB) July 27, 2015Even better, the academy has its own statue for the "Architect" of the academy -- Bartolo himself.
Here it is, folks. Welcome to the Bartolo Colon Baseball Academy in the DR (photos/@alexsimon99) #BC40 pic.twitter.com/SolTPZq8Qh
- Jesse Sanchez (@JesseSanchezMLB) July 27, 2015All I know is that if the Academy were to sell life-size replicas of the statue, I would sell everything I owned just to have one.
(Photos by @AlexSimon99)