LYNN – A visit from a Dominican Republic baseball team gave Fraser Field a taste of Caribbean culture on Thursday.Beginning at 4 p.m., Dominican Day featured music, dancing, and Caribbean food. And yes, there was a game between the Dominican all-stars and the North Shore Navigators, with the teams playing a sport that many identify as a part of Dominican culture.Click here to a view a photo gallery from the Dominican baseball game against the North Shore Navigators.Based on interviews in English and Spanish with some of the people who came to watch, the evening succeeded in attracting fans to Fraser who had never visited the field before. Dominicans in the crowd voiced pride in their community and city, and happiness that their presence in Lynn was being recognized.”It’s great,” said Jahaira Moncion, a first-time visitor to Fraser who attended the game with her husband, Francisco, their 5-year-old son, Angel, and her mother, Francia Cabrera. “I hope it keeps happening every year. I hope people get excited and keep coming.”Moncion was born in the U.S., but she has numerous ties to the Dominican Republic. Her mother was born in its capital, Santo Domingo, and her husband is from the section of Cibao. She lives in Lynn with her family.Of the city’s Dominican population, she said, “Most of them, basically all, have businesses,” adding that this provides the city with “economic growth and gains. They’re all hard-working. Every now and then, one will fall out, but every ethnicity has that.”Recognition of Latinos in New England was a theme of the Latino Baseball Series, a regional visit by the Dominican all-stars in which they play teams from the New England Collegiate Baseball League, of which the Navigators are an affiliate. At Fraser, Navigators personnel estimated a crowd of about 1,000, below the Opening Day total but still something to celebrate.Navigators owner Philip Rosenfield said that the event was “in recognition that Latinos’ national pastime is baseball, especially the Dominicans, in recognition that a city populated by a community of Latinos and Dominicans would probably enjoy this.”The day began with spectators filing into Fraser and watching batting practice and listening to reggaeton. Fans showed their support by waving Dominican flags, wearing flag-themed apparel, and cheering constantly and consistently.Even the U.S. national anthem had a Dominican theme to it. Priscilla Nunez, who sang it, is of Dominican heritage. Both of her parents are from the country. The audience heard both the national anthems of the U.S. and the Dominican Republic.”Dominican people love Lynn,” said Nunez’ uncle, Miguel Soto, a Santo Domingo native and a machinist at General Electric who has lived in Lynn for 35 years. “This is our place. We appreciate Lynn ? This is my home.”There were cheers for nice plays, and also lighter moments. One man twisted balloons into toys for the many children in the crowd. His balloon swords were popular, with some being used by one of the dance teams that danced atop dugouts between innings.As the Navs built an 8-1 lead in the game, the crowd grew less vocal at times, but most of the attendees stayed to the end.Not everyone was 100 percent pleased. Before the game began, a staffer brought a woman to Rosenfield with a complaint.”I live across the street,” she said. “The bass is driving me crazy. I can’t hear the news on TV. Why is that?”Ironically, there was at least one member of the crowd at Fraser who might have agreed with her.”Reggaeton is for the young people,” Cabrera said in Spanish. It seemed that she instead preferred other types of music associated with the Dominican Republic, such as meringue and bachata.Overall, however, most people seemed happy after a festive evening at Fraser.