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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Sonia Sotomayor: Bronx (and Baseball) Role Model [Watch (HLS stream): Sonia Sotomayor: Bronx (and Baseball) Role Model](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/TgzHLK8q.m3u8) (4:10)  _Published 2009-06-03. South Bronx native Julio Pabon, who promotes Latino baseball players as role models, compares President Obama’s court pick to a legendary baseball icon_ --- Jul 27, 2023 1:10 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [The Price of a Baseball Game](/video/fKxYw4sM/) ### The Price of a Baseball Game [Baseball Salaries Through the Years](/video/eTn8Hbsb/) ### Baseball Salaries Through the Years [An Army Vet Returns from War to Her Bronx Neighborhood](/video/Agbfd5rv/) ### An Army Vet Returns from War to Her Bronx Neighborhood --- ## Transcript >> My first game here was one of those seats that Con Edison used to give up, you know, for all the poor kids. That's how I came to the Yankees game for the first time. >> South Bronx native Julio Pabon grew up on baseball. >> Being Puerto Rican you don't have a choice, you know. I mean your father or somebody in your family is into baseball then where did I come to live? In the South Bronx. So it kind of calls you. It's like a calling. >> He was inspired by players like Roberto Clemente, a poor Latino who made it to the top of his game to achieve the American dream. Since then he's made it his mission to promote top Latino athletes. >> I'm the President of Latino Sports Ventures, Inc. Every year we give out awards to the top Latino baseball players. Kids of color just don't have positive role model. They gotta have more positive role model. >> Now he's cheering for another emerging Puerto Rican all- star. This time a woman on the bench. >> Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the great state of New York. >> You have nominated me to serve on the country's highest court, and I am deeply moved. >> If confirmed, Judge Sotomayor would be the first Hispanic female to serve on the US Supreme Court. >> This is a woman that I can relate to a lot. Just like me she was raised by one parent. She wasn't rich. Her mother had to work 2 jobs sometimes to survive. My father had to work sometimes 2 or 3 jobs. Living in the projects, so that says something. First year in the school she felt like I failed many times that she didn't even raised her hand her first year in Princeton because she needs to know that she belonged there and for someone to be selected for this position having gone through all of that we have a daughter of the Bronx. We have una Boricua, you know, Puerto Rican that did something. >> But Conservative critics point to Sotomayor's previous comments when she said her Latin heritage and female perspective would make her better suited for deciding cases. They call it reverse racism and say they're convinced she'll legislate a liberal agenda from the court. >> Now if somebody suggested in any way that the fact that they were male and white and that that would influence their judging, would that not be viewed as discriminatory? >> She's not about making the laws. She's interpreting and she's gonna interpret from the position of being a woman who is Latina who grow up in the South Bronx. So yes that's gonna have an effect on her, but I think it's a positive effect. That's what America is all about. America believe it or not is a country of immigrants, you know. So we're gonna give immigrants an opportunity to be part of the fiber that makes this country. >> Plus a baseball fan live Pabon is quick to add she saved the sport he loves. In 1995 Judge Sotomayor then a federal district court judge in Manhattan issued a temporary injunction that helped end the 7- 1 / 2- month baseball strike between major league owners and players. >> If you follow baseball and you are hungry for baseball and you're tired of this negotiations and you're tired of, you know, this back and forth, it finally goes to this judge and this judge in record time was like you got it then it's over. Baseball owners, you're wrong. You can't do that. Baseball players are right. Get back to play. It was like baseball. She came in in the 9th inning and fired 3 fastballs, bing, bing, bing. Game over. Let's go play. >> And that was it? >> That was it. If she would've grown up in another community I don't think she would've made the decision as quickly as she did to end the baseball strike. >> Pabon says her nomination has been a huge source of pride for people in the Bronx and for Latinos. >> Nothing is impossible. Look at Sotomayor. Look at Clemente. They both follow the dream. 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