|
Leones De León
Founded by: Sophia Slavin The Leones de León is a professional baseball team competing in the Nicaragua Professional Baseball League and the Nicaraguan baseball 1st division (Campeonato Nacional de Béisbol Superior de Nicaragua - GPO). Their home games are played at Estadio Héroes y Mártires de Septiembre in León, Nicaragua. Their biggest rival is Indios del Bóer. The Leones de Leon won the 2019 Latin American Baseball Series, which is the other counterpart of Caribbean Series, Serie Del Caribe, in a Final Game against the champion team of Mexico. Championships in LBPN Championships in Campeonato Nacional de Béisbol Superior (Germán Pomares Ordoñez) Championships in Serie Latinoamericana References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professional Baseball
Professional baseball is organized baseball in which players are selected for their talents and are paid to play for a specific team or club system. It is played in baseball league, leagues and associated farm teams throughout the world. Modern professional leagues Americas United States and Canada Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada (founded in 1869) consists of the National League (founded in 1876) and the American League (founded in 1901). Historically, teams in one league never played teams in the other until the World Series, in which the champions of the two leagues played against each other. This changed in 1997 with the advent of interleague play. As of 2022, the Philadelphia Phillies, founded in 1883, are the oldest continuous same-name, same-city franchise in both Major League Baseball and all of American professional sports. In addition to the major leagues, many North American cities and towns feature minor league teams. An organization offic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicaragua Professional Baseball League
Liga de Beisbol Profesional Nacional (LBPN) is the professional baseball league of Nicaragua. The league consists of five teams with a 30 game regular season schedule that runs from November to December. Followed by a four team round robin, with the two best teams advancing to a best of seven championship series. Inaugurated on March 30, 1956, in Estadio Nacional, the first game was between the teams from San Fernando and Bóer. The Nicaraguan public's excitement for baseball grew as foreign professional teams and foreign players came to play in their country. Due to economic difficulty, the league had to shut down in 1967. The teams from Bóer and León were the most successful teams in those years with three championships each. The professional league was re-established in 2004. Since then, Bóer has led the league in championships with five. Current teams * Indios del Bóer (Managua) * Tigres del Chinandega * Gigantes de Rivas * Leones de León * Tren del Norte (Esteli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
León, Nicaragua
León () is the second largest city in Nicaragua, after Managua. Founded by the Spanish as Santiago de los Caballeros de León, it is the capital and largest city of León Department. , the municipality of León has an estimated population of 212,504. León is located along the ''Río Chiquito'' (Chiquito River), some northwest of Managua, and some east of the Pacific Ocean coast. León has long been the political and intellectual center of the nation and its National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN) was founded in 1813, making it the second oldest university in Central America. León is also an important industrial, agricultural, and commercial center for Nicaragua, exporting sugar cane, cattle, peanut, plantain, and sorghum. The city has been home to many of Nicaragua's most noteworthy poets including Rubén Darío, Alfonso Cortés and Salomón de la Selva. History The first city named León in Nicaragua was founded in 1524 by Francisco Hernández de Córdoba about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indios Del Bóer
The Indios del Bóer are a professional baseball team based in Managua, Nicaragua competing in the Nicaraguan Professional Baseball League. Their home games are played at the Dennis Martínez National Stadium. They have won the Nicaraguan league eight times. The team, as well as their fans, are commonly referred to as ''La Tribu'' or ''the tribe''. History Indios del Bóer were established in 1905, simply as Bóer. The team's name comes from the Spanish name of boers, that was chosen to embody the team's values as fighters. The Indios' first uniform was: white cap, black shirt, white pants and black socks. The club was founded by Carter Donaldson, American consul in Nicaragua, his son Agustín Donaldson and Francisco Caparro. Caparro also played for the Indios as pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caribbean Series
The Caribbean Series (''Spanish'': ''Serie del Caribe''), also called Caribbean World Series, is the highest tournament for professional baseball teams in Latin America. The tournament location is rotated annually among the countries and is normally played in February after all of the leagues have ended their national tournaments. History The competition was the brainchild of Venezuelan baseball entrepreneur Pablo Morales and Oscar Prieto Ortiz, his business partner since 1936, who devised the idea after seeing the success of the now extinct Serie Interamericana in 1946, which featured the clubs Brooklyn Bushwicks from the United States, Cervecería Caracas from Venezuela, Sultanes de Monterrey from Mexico, and an All-Star team composed of Cuban players. Inspired by the Serie Interamericana and his experience as a former president of the International Baseball Federation, Morales joined Prieto and presented the idea to baseball representatives of Cuba, Panama, and Puerto Rico d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Mexico covers ,Mexico ''''. . making it the world's 13th-largest country by are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
