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Julio Sánchez
Julio César Sánchez Reynosa (born September 28, 1955) is a Nicaraguan professional baseball coach and police officer. One of the winningest managers in Nicaraguan baseball history, he managed the Nicaragua national baseball team at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Sánchez also holds the rank of Commissioner General in the Nicaraguan National Police. Baseball career Sánchez played nineteen seasons in the Nicaraguan First Division, later renamed the Germán Pomares Championship, from 1974 to 1993. Over the course of his career, he played with Chinandega, Búfalos, Industriales, Bóer, Granada, and Fieras del San Fernando, batting .269 with 1,032 hits and 519 RBIs. As a member of the national team, he hit a memorable home run against the Dominican Republic at the 1983 Pan American Games in Caracas. Sánchez first coached the Nicaraguan national team in 1995, which would be one of the most successful years in the program's history. He led the team to a silver medal finish at the Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catcher
Catcher is a position in baseball and softball. When a batter takes their turn to hit, the catcher crouches behind home plate, in front of the (home) umpire, and receives the ball from the pitcher. In addition to this primary duty, the catcher is also called upon to master many other skills in order to field the position well. The role of the catcher is similar to that of the wicket-keeper in cricket. Positioned behind home plate and facing toward the outfield, the catcher can see the whole field, and is therefore in the best position to direct and lead the other players in a defensive play. The catcher typically calls for pitches using PitchCom, or hand signals. The calls are based on the pitcher's mechanics and strengths, as well as the batter's tendencies and weaknesses. Essentially, the catcher controls what happens during the game when the ball is not "in play". Foul tips, bouncing balls in the dirt, and contact with runners during plays at the plate are all events ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germán Pomares Championship
The Germán Pomares Championship, officially the ''Campeonato Nacional de Béisbol Superior Cmte. Germán Pomares Ordóñez'' ( " Comdt. Germán Pomares Ordóñez National Senior Baseball Championship") and referred to simply as the Pomares, is a semi-professional baseball circuit in Nicaragua. The league is made up of 20 teams, largely corresponding to the country's different departments. The Pomares is the second-highest level of baseball in the country, below the Nicaraguan Professional Baseball League (LPBN). Several professional baseball teams from the winter league LPBN also compete in the Pomares, which typically runs from February to August. The competition was formed in 1970 by Carlos García Solórzano, after Nicaragua's professional league collapsed in 1967. It was later renamed after , a member of the Sandinista National Liberation Front and baseball enthusiast who died during the Nicaraguan Revolution The Nicaraguan Revolution () began with rising opposition to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicaraguan Revolution
The Nicaraguan Revolution () began with rising opposition to the Somoza dictatorship in the 1960s and 1970s, the ouster of the dictatorship in 1978–79, and fighting between the government and the Contras from 1981 to 1990. The revolution revealed the country as one of the major proxy war battlegrounds of the Cold War. The initial overthrow of the Somoza dictatorial regime in 1978–79 cost many lives, and the Contra War of the 1980s took tens of thousands more and was the subject of fierce international debate. Because of the political turmoil, failing economy, and limited government influence, during the 1980s both the FSLN (a leftist collection of political parties) and the Contras (a rightist collection of counter-revolutionary groups) received aid from the Soviet Union and the United States, respectively. A peace process started with the Sapoá Accords in 1988 and the Contra War ended after the signing of the Tela Accord in 1989 and the demobilization of the FSLN ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 Serie De Las Américas
The 2025 Serie de las Américas was the inaugural edition of the Serie de las Américas club baseball tournament and it took place from January 24 to 30, 2025, in Nicaragua, at the Estadio Nacional Soberanía in Managua, the Estadio Roberto Clemente in Masaya, and the Estadio Rigoberto López Perez in León. The competitors in this series were the winners of the winter league baseball leagues of each of the members of the Baseball Association of the Americas: Argentina, Colombia, Cuba, Curaçao, Panama, and Nicaragua. Tournament format A single round-robin format was used, where each team faced each other once. The four teams with the best records advanced to the semifinals. The two semifinal winners then met in the final to decide the tournament champion. Participating teams Preliminary round :Time zone: Time in Nicaragua ( UTC-6) Knockout stage Semi-finals Final Statistical leaders Batting Pitching See also * 2025 Caribbean Series * 2025 Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leones De León
The Leones de León are a professional baseball team competing in the Nicaragua Professional Baseball League (LPBN). Their home games are played at Estadio Héroes y Mártires de Septiembre in León, Nicaragua. Their biggest rival is Indios del Bóer, which are based in the capital of Managua. Championships Leones won the 1958 Pan American Series (''Serie Panamericana''), a one-off international club tournament against Venados de Mazatlán of the Mexican Pacific League and Vanytor de Barranquilla of the Colombian league. They also won the 2019 Latin American Series, the other counterpart of Caribbean Series, in a final game against the Chileros de Xalapa of the Mexican Liga Invernal Veracruzana The Veracruz Winter League (Spanish: Liga Invernal Veracruzana de Béisbol Profesional) is a professional baseball winter league, representing the Mexican state of Veracruz, taking place between the months of October and January. It is currently .... Leones has also won the most t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2026 World Baseball Classic Qualification
The World Baseball Classic qualification, qualifying round of the 2026 World Baseball Classic, officially called the World Baseball Classic 2025 Qualifiers, was held from February 21 to March 6, 2025. The top four teams in 2023 World Baseball Classic#Group stage, each pool of the 2023 World Baseball Classic automatically qualified for the 2026 tournament. The qualifiers consisted of two tournaments with four teams each, and is held in Taipei, Taiwan, and Tucson, Arizona, Tucson, United States of America. Two teams of each tournament qualified for the 2026 World Baseball Classic. Qualified teams Players Venues Pools composition The format consisted of two rounds. The first round is a Round-robin tournament, round-robin, with the teams playing each other once. After the six games from each group, the first-placed team qualified for the final tournament, while the second and third-placed teams play in a seventh game where the winner also qualified. Pool A Pool A took plac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 World Baseball Classic
The 2023 World Baseball Classic (WBC) was an international professional baseball tournament and the fifth iteration of the World Baseball Classic. It began on March 8, 2023, and ran until March 21. It was originally scheduled to take place in 2021, four years after the 2017 World Baseball Classic, previous event, but was canceled in May 2020, as a result of the Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports, COVID-19 pandemic. It was later announced that 2023 World Baseball Classic qualification, qualifications for the Classic would start in September 2022, as agreed by World Baseball Classic Inc. (WBCI) The tournament expanded from 16 to 20 national teams, with all teams that participated in the 2017 World Baseball Classic, 2017 edition automatically qualifying, plus four additional spots. Unlike in 2009 World Baseball Classic rosters, 2009, 2013 World Baseball Classic rosters, 2013 and 2017 World Baseball Classic rosters, 2017, the U.S. lineup attracted some distinguished players a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arizona Diamondbacks
The Arizona Diamondbacks are an American professional baseball team based in Phoenix, Arizona. The Diamondbacks compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West Division. The franchise was established on March 9, 1995 and began play in 1998 as an expansion team. The team plays its home games at Chase Field. Along with the Tampa Bay Rays, the Diamondbacks are one of the newest teams in the MLB and are the youngest team to win a World Series, doing so in only their fourth season of existence in 2001. After a fifth-place finish in their inaugural season, the Diamondbacks made several off-season acquisitions, including future Hall of Fame pitcher Randy Johnson, who won four consecutive Cy Young Awards in his first four seasons with the team. In 1999, Arizona won 100 games and their first division championship. In 2001, they won the World Series over the three-time defending champion New York Yankees, becoming the fastest expansion team ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tigres De Chinandega
The Tigres de Chinandega (English: ''Chinandega Tigers'') are a baseball club that competes in the Nicaragua Professional Baseball League (LPBN), representing the city of Chinandega. The team has won the league championship four times, in 2006, 2012, 2017, and most recently in 2018. Tigres play their home games at Estadio Efraín Tijerino, which seats 9,000 people. The team has also won two championships while playing in the Nicaraguan amateur baseball league, the Germán Pomares Ordóñez First Division (), in 1971 and 1974. Tigres won their second championship in 2013 and went on to participate in the 2013 Latin American Series held in Veracruz, where they finished as runners-up with 2 wins and 1 loss. They returned to the tournament in 2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicaraguan Professional Baseball League
The Nicaraguan Professional Baseball League ( or LBPN), known as the Campeonato Claro for sponsorship purposes, 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 playoff round robin; the two best teams advance to a best of seven championship series. History Before the formation of the professional league, Nicaraguan baseball had long been played at the amateur level. However, the first club to sign a player to a professional baseball was San Fernando, signing several Cuban players for the 1955. The following year, the entire league embraced professionalism. The Nicaraguan professional league was formed in 1956, with five teams: Indios del Bóer, Cinco Estrellas, San Fernando, León, and Flor de Caña. Inaugurated on March 30, 1956 at the Estadio Nacional Anastasio Somoza (the site of the modern Estadio Nacional Soberanía), the first game w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indios Del Bóer
The Indios del Bóer ( ''Boers, Boer Indians'') are a baseball club based in Managua, Nicaragua competing in the Nicaraguan Professional Baseball League (LBPN). Their home games are played at the Dennis Martínez National Stadium, Estadio Nacional Soberanía (previously the Estadio Nacional Dennis Martínez), Nicaragua's largest baseball stadium. Established in 1905, the club is commonly referred to as ''La Tribu'' (The Tribe), and has won the Nicaraguan professional championship nine times. History Indios del Bóer were established in 1905, simply as Bóer. The club's name is derived from the Boers, Boer people of South Africa, who had recently fought a Second Boer War, fierce war with the British Empire; the name was thought to represent a spirit of independence and fighting to the death. The Indios' first uniform was white cap, black shirt, white pants and black socks. Bóer was founded by Carter Donaldson, the United States Ambassador to Nicaragua, United States consul in Nic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1995 Intercontinental Cup (baseball)
The 1995 Intercontinental Cup was an association football match played on 28 November 1995 between Ajax, winners of the 1994–95 UEFA Champions League, and Grêmio, winners of the 1995 Copa Libertadores. The match was played at the National Stadium in Tokyo. It was Ajax's second appearance into the competition, after the victory in 1972; moreover, Ajax declined to play in 1971 and 1973, being replaced by Panathinaikos and Juventus respectively. It was Grêmio's second appearance as well, after the victory in 1983. Danny Blind was named as man of the match. Venue Match details Man of the Match: Danny Blind (Ajax) Match Ball *The Ball of the match was the Adidas Questra, originally designed to be the official match ball of the 1994 FIFA World Cup in the United States. See also *1994–95 UEFA Champions League * 1995 Copa Libertadores * 1995–96 AFC Ajax season * AFC Ajax in European football References {{Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense matches Intercontine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
