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The Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League (Spanish: Liga de Béisbol Profesional de la República Dominicana or LIDOM) is a professional baseball winter league consisting of six teams spread across the Dominican Republic; it is the highest level of professional baseball played in the Dominican Republic.
The team was established on 15 December 1910 with the idea of competing against Tigres del Licey, that dominated the Dominican League during those years.Estrellas Orientales won their first title in 1936 defeating Santiago Baseball Club, Tigres del Licey and Leones del Escogido.
The Dominican Republic national baseball team (Spanish: Selección de béisbol de República Dominicana) is the national baseball team of the Dominican Republic. The team has won the Baseball World Cup in 1948 and World Baseball Classic in 2013. They are the first team to have won both world competitions.
Estadio Quisqueya Juan Marichal (Spanish for Quisqueya Stadium Juan Marichal) [a] is a baseball stadium in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.It is the only stadium in the Caribbean region to host two different baseball teams, Tigres del Licey (Licey Tigers) and Leones del Escogido (Chosen One Lions).
Payano was born in New York City but raised in San Francisco de Macorís, Dominican Republic. [1] [2] He signed with the Texas Rangers as an international free agent on June 1, 2012. [3] Payano spent the 2012, 2013, and 2014 seasons playing for the DSL Rangers of the Rookie-level Dominican Summer League. [4]
The Liga Invernal de Béisbol Nayarita (formerly known as Liga Nayarit de Béisbol and Liga de Béisbol del Noroeste) is a twelve-team baseball league in the Mexican state of Nayarit. Founded in 2000, it was a winter affiliate of the Mexican League .
The Dominican Summer League (DSL) is a branch of affiliated Minor League Baseball which is played in the Dominican Republic.The league was founded in 1985. After the demise of the Venezuelan Summer League after the 2015 season, it is the only Latin America-based rookie league.
According to El País newspaper, the first game was played on January 11, 1898 at the old velodrome in Santurce, San Juan. The Borinquen beat the Almendares 3 to 0. The first game to complete nine innings was played on January 30, 1898, when the Borinquen beat the Almendares again, 9 to 3. [5]