A TEAM, IN CLEATS OR DANCING SHOES
By Sara Rimer, NEW YORK TIMES

Gustavo Duran and his best friend, Carlos Del Rosario, and the other five seniors on the George Washington High School baseball team in Washington Heights had been talking about the prom for weeks: the cool tuxedos they would wear, the limousine they would rent, the gorgeous girls they would dance with.

Gustavo Duran a captain of the George Washington High School baseball team, is attended to at the All Star Barber Shop.

Freddy Soto is helped by his friend's mother, Estela Fernandez.

With Santiago Molina, the smoothest dancer on the team, leading them, they practiced their salsa and merengue in their dingy locker room, twirling each other around the concrete floor between the rows of battered lockers.

The prom would be the biggest night of the school year. And for this band of 17- and 18-year-old Dominican-Americans, friends since middle school, bound by their determination to make something of themselves through baseball, it was important that they would spend the evening together.

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