Liga Nacional Bolivariana De Béisbol
The Liga Nacional Bolivariana de Béisbol (LNBB, English: ''Bolivarian National Baseball League''), commonly referred to as the Liga Bolivariana ( ''Bolivarian League''), was a semi-professional baseball league that operated in Venezuela from 2005 to 2019. Unlike the top-level Venezuelan Professional Baseball League, the LNBB season was played during the summer, for players not affiliated with American organized baseball (i.e. those playing in the Venezuelan Summer League). The league was founded in February 2005 by President Hugo Chávez, and was sponsored by the Venezuelan government as well as the state-owned oil giant PDVSA. Critics referred to it as the "Chávez League," due to its close association with the Chavista regime. At its height, the league saw the participation of up to 20 teams in 19 states of country's 23 states. In 2019, it ceased its activities due to financial problems, during the prolonged economic crisis in Venezuela An ongoing socioeconomic and politic ...
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Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport, teams of nine players each, taking turns batting (baseball), batting and Fielding (baseball), fielding. The game occurs over the course of several Pitch (baseball), plays, with each play beginning when a player on the fielding team (baseball), fielding team, called the pitcher, throws a Baseball (ball), ball that a player on the batting team (baseball), batting team, called the Batter (baseball), batter, tries to hit with a baseball bat, bat. The objective of the offensive team (batting team) is to hit the ball into the field of play, away from the other team's players, allowing its players to run the Base (baseball), bases, having them advance counter-clockwise around four bases to score what are called "Run (baseball), runs". The objective of the defensive team (referred to as the fielding team) is to prevent batters from becoming Base running, runners, and to prevent runners base running ...
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