Dominican origin immigrated from the Dominican Republic, number in the hundreds, and count among them Robinson Canó, José Bautista, Rafael Soriano, David Ortiz, Albert Pujols, Edwin Encarnacion, Hanley Ramírez, Manny Ramírez, Bartolo Colón and Hall of Fame members Juan Marichal, Vladimir Guerrero and Pedro Martínez. Some of them, including Manny (2004), Pujols (2007), Ortiz (2008), Canó (2012), Colón (2014), Hanley (2019), and Carlos Santana (2019) have obtained U.S. citizenship. Dominican natives Felipe Alou and Tony Peña were managers and Omar Minaya is a general manager in (MLB). Basketball has seen the likes of Felipe López, Francisco Garcia and the father-son pair of Tito and Al Horford, all originally from the Dominican Republic, as well as Charlie Villanueva and 2015 NBA draft top pick Karl-Anthony Towns from the New York area. In the National Football League (NFL) there are Luis Castillo, Tutan Reyes and Dante Rosario. Baseball is a lifestyle among many in the Dominican community, and most Dominican American MLB fans are split between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox. Basketball is also a popular sport among Dominicans. Other Among other notables of full or partial Dominican origins are Nancy Alvarez, sexologist and talk show host in Spanish-language media; Susie Castillo, Miss USA 2003; Mary Joe Fernández, a tennis player and television commentator; CNN columnist Geovanny Vicente, a community leader and political strategist in Washington, D.C.; Providencia Paredes, an assistant and confidante to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis; and Ilka Tanya Payan, an AIDS/HIV activist, actress and attorney. See also Dominican people Dominican Republic Demographics of the Dominican Republic Culture of the Dominican Republic Afro-Dominicans Dominican Day Parade Dominican immigration to Puerto Rico Dominican Canadians Hispanic Americans Stateside Puerto Ricans Cuban Americans Haitian Americans West Indian Americans Spanish Caribbean Dominican Republic–United States relations Black Hispanic and Latino Americans White Hispanic and Latino Americans Multiracial Americans Mexican Americans Spanish Americans References Further reading Buffington, Sean T. "Dominican Americans." Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, edited by Thomas Riggs, (3rd ed., vol. 2, Gale, 2014, pp. 15–25. online Aparicio, Ana. Dominican-Americans and the Politics of Empowerment (UP of Florida, 2009). Guarnizo, Luis E. "Los Dominicanyorks: The making of a binational society." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 533.1 (1994): 70-86 [ online]. Hernández, Ramona. The Mobility of Workers under Advanced Capitalism: Dominican Migration to the United States (Columbia UP, 2002). Itzigsohn, José. Encountering American Faultlines: Race, Class, and