PLAYING THE ETHNIC CARD IS A TIME-HONORED BASEBALL TRADITION
BY Jonathan Tilove, NEWHOUSE NEWS SERVICE

By day Julio Ferreras works across the street from Shea Stadium, home to his beloved New York Mets, keeping the Number 7 subway trains in good working order.

By night and weekend, he runs the Dominican youth baseball league he founded here in Queens.

And, in the weeks before opening day, Ferreras has also been scouting Dominican talent for the Mets -- not ballplayers, mind you, but merengue musicians who can perform at Shea when Pedro Martinez, the team's newly acquired Dominican superstar, is on the mound.

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