ESPN.com: MLB – The interview: Malcolm Gladwell – more on situations creating greatness–or at least the idea of the possibility of greatness! “Dominicans are not “better” infielders than everyone else. But if you are a nine-year-old kid playing in San Pedro de Macoris, you know that it’s possible to be a major leaguer, in a way that the same kid growing up in Maine does not. When symbolic barriers are broken — the first man from the Dominican Republic to make the majors, the first person to break four minutes — the context in which we think of achievement changes dramatically.”