Costumbres - Chapitas in Venezuela

Costumbres - Chapitas in Venezuela

Growing up in Venezuela, Gyorgy Aponte played a makeshift version of baseball, “chapitas,” using bottle caps and a broom. With his family and baseball buddies dispersed around the world, he decides to pass on the custom to his son in Canada.

A transcript of this episode is available at https://bit.ly/37m6vKs.

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