Club Béisbol Viladecans is a
División de Honor de Béisbol baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding t ...
club in
Viladecans
Viladecans () is a town near Barcelona, Spain. It is located between Sant Boi de Llobregat and Sant Climent de Llobregat, and is on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea between El Prat de Llobregat and Gavà.
Viladecans is basically a service to ...
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Catalonia
Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a '' nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy.
Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the nort ...
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Spain
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, national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
, national_anthem = (English: "Royal March")
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. It was founded in 1945 and was one of the most active teams during the heyday of
baseball in Spain
The main ruling organization regarding baseball in Spain is the Royal Spanish Baseball and Softball Federation ''(Real Federación Española de Béisbol y Sófbol)''.
History
Baseball began relatively early in Spain thanks to the descendants of i ...
in the 1950s and 1960s. Club Beisbol Viladecans was one of the few teams that survived the difficult times of the late 1960s and 1970s, when mass-interest in
football (soccer) compromised the viability of other local baseball clubs.
The field of the Club Beisbol Viladecans was officially used during the
1992 Summer Olympics
The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as ...
for
baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding t ...
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1992 Summer Olympics official report.
Volume 2. pp. 317-8.
Trophies
* División de Honor: 4
**1980, 1985, 1987, 1993
*Copa del Rey
The Campeonato de España–Copa de Su Majestad el Rey, commonly known as Copa del Rey or simply La Copa and formerly known as Copa del Presidente de la República (1932–36) and Copa del Generalísimo (1939–76), is an annual knockout footb ...
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**1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
Awards
*In 1957 Club Beisbol Viladecans won the Radio Ciudad de Barcelona Trophy, its first significant victory.
*21 times Champion of Spain in the senior category from 1982 to 2002.
*Winner of the Spanish Cup in 1982.
*Champion of Spain in the female junior category in 1986.
See also
*History of baseball outside the United States
Today, baseball is a popular sport around the world with numerous countries practicing it at amateur and professional levels.
International Baseball Federation (IBAF)
The International Baseball Federation (IBAF) was founded in 1938, after th ...
References
Former CB Viladecans official webpage
External links
Official website
Baseball teams in Catalonia
Viladecans
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