Today, baseball is a popular sport around the world with numerous countries practicing it at amateur and professional levels.
The Caribbean Series is an annual club tournament contested by professional baseball teams in Latin America. The series is normally played in February, after the various winter leagues have ended their national tournaments.
Club de Fútbol Monterrey, often known simply as Monterrey or their nickname Rayados, is a Mexican professional football club based in the Monterrey metropolitan area, Nuevo León, Mexico. The team currently plays in Liga MX, the top tier of Mexican football. Founded on 28 June 1945, it is the oldest active professional team from the northern part of Mexico. Since 1999 the club has been owned by FEMSA, Latin America's largest bottling company. Its home games have been played in the Estadio BBVA since 2015.
Carlos Arnoldo Salcido Flores is a Mexican former professional footballer. He started his career as a centre-back and played most of it as left-back, then converted to defensive midfielder and ended it as centre-back. He won the 2012 Olympic gold medal.
The Venezuelan Professional Baseball League is the top-level professional baseball league in Venezuela. The league's champion takes part in the Caribbean Series each year.
The Indios del Bóer are a baseball club based in Managua, Nicaragua competing in the Nicaraguan Professional Baseball League (LBPN). Their home games are played at the Estadio Nacional Soberanía, Nicaragua's largest baseball stadium. Established in 1905, the club is commonly referred to as La Tribu, and has won the Nicaraguan professional championship nine times.
The Leones de León are a professional baseball team competing in the Nicaragua Professional Baseball League (LPBN).
Yurendell Eithel DeCaster is a Dutch professional baseball third baseman. He played part of one season in Major League Baseball with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He played for Team Netherlands in the 2019 European Baseball Championship, and at the Africa/Europe 2020 Olympic Qualification tournament, in Italy in September 2019.
Baseball is the national game of Nicaragua, and is one of the most popular sports in the country. Nicaragua has a professional baseball league, the Nicaraguan Professional Baseball League, consisting of four teams, playing in the winter, and a semiprofessional league, El Campeonato German Pomares, playing in spring and summer. The national baseball team has been successful in the past, mainly throughout the 1970s. Nicaragua and near-by Panama are two countries who have baseball as their national sport, rather than soccer, the national sport of many Central American countries.
Denis Phipps is a Dominican professional baseball outfielder for the Charleston Dirty Birds of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cincinnati Reds in 2012.
Wuillians Martin Vasquez is a Venezuelan-Nicaraguan professional baseball infielder.
Jorge Jonathan Espericueta Escamilla is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
Chinandega Airport is an airport serving Chinandega, the capital of the Chinandega Department of Nicaragua. The airport is on the northwest edge of the city.
The Latin American Series was an annual baseball competition contested by the champions of the professional baseball winter leagues in Latin America and the Caribbean. The tournament was organized by the Latin American Professional Baseball Association (ALBP) as an alternative to the Caribbean Series.
The 2017 Latin American Series was the fifth edition of the Latin American Series, a baseball sporting event played by the champions of the professional winter leagues that make up the Latin American Professional Baseball Association (ALBP) and the last series containing representatives exclusively from the ALBP's founding nations.
The 2018 Latin American Series was the sixth edition of the Latin American Series, a baseball sporting event played by the champions of the professional winter leagues that make up the Latin American Professional Baseball Association (ALBP) and the first series containing representatives from outside the ALBP's founding nations.
The Liga Superior de Baloncesto (LSB), also known as the LSB Nicaragua, is the highest level of professional basketball in Nicaragua. The league was established in 2018 and started its inaugural season in February 2018 with six teams.
The 2024 Caribbean Series was the 66th edition of the Caribbean Series club baseball tournament, played from February 1-9, 2024, at LoanDepot Park in Miami, Florida, United States. This was the first time since the 1991 series that the Caribbean Series was held outside of Latin America, as well as the first Caribbean Series that was held at a Major League Baseball ballpark.
The Gigantes de Rivas are a professional baseball team based in Rivas, Nicaragua. They compete in the Nicaraguan Professional Baseball League (LBPN). The team plays at the Estadio Yamil Ríos Ugarte. Established in 2013, the club has won the LBPN title four times in 2014, 2016, 2021 and 2024. The Gigantes also won the 2016 Latin American Series, becoming the first Nicaraguan team to win the Latin American Series.
Cinco Estrellas was a Nicaraguan baseball club based in Managua. Founded in 1941, they played their home games at the Estadio Nacional General Anastasio Somoza G..
