Baseball In Nicaragua
Baseball is the national game of Nicaragua, and is one of the most popular sports in the country. Nicaragua has a professional baseball league, the Nicaraguan Professional Baseball League, consisting of four teams, playing in the winter, and a semiprofessional league, El Campeonato German Pomares, playing in spring and summer. The Nicaragua national baseball team, national baseball team has been successful in the past, mainly throughout the 1970s. Nicaragua and near-by Panama are two countries who have baseball as their national sport, rather than soccer, the national sport of many Central American countries. History timeline Early history Baseball was introduced in the 1880s by Albert Addlesberg, an United States, American businessman living in Bluefields. During this time, the area around Bluefields was known as the autonomous Mosquito Coast, Mosquito Reserve and a strong British influence in the area was evidenced by the popularity of cricket. Addlesberg convinced two of the ...
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