Inside the 'secret' baseball academy the Dodgers are running in Uganda
MPIGI, Uganda — Hidden at the end of a narrow, rutted dirt road in central Uganda, wedged between a concrete wall and a hillside dotted with palm trees, is the only baseball academy run by a major league team in Europe or Africa.
The Dodger blue paint and the white interlocking LA on the archway above the entrance identify the owner, but the team will say nothing about the facility, about its interest in Uganda and what, exactly, goes on behind that concrete wall.
"The Dodgers are keeping it a secret," said Ssempa Johnbosco, who coached the Ugandan national team to the final of the 2019 African Cup. "I think they are scared of [losing] their players to another MLB franchise."
It's unlikely the team will be able to keep the academy
