As a new major league baseball season begins this week, another group of players is taking their love of "America's favorite pastime" to fields across the U.S.: indigenous Yucatec Maya immigrants.
In Mexico, the Mayas are a people apart. Half a millennium since Spanish conquistadors set foot in Mesoamerica, their numbers stand in the millions and they remain racially, linguistically and culturally distinct from their non-indigenous countrymen.
