After decades of supporting poor, young baseball players as they began their professional careers, minor league host families have officially been phased out.
PHOENIX Long before David Peralta was a veteran outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers, he was an 18-year-old kid from Venezuela who didn t speak much English playing minor league baseball in Johnson City, Tenn.
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