Baseball was contested at the 1962 Central American and Caribbean Games in Kingston, Jamaica.
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's baseball | Dominican Republic (DOM) | Puerto Rico (PUR) | Mexico (MEX) |
The Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League 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 league's players include many prospects that go on to play Major League Baseball in the United States while also signing many current MLB veterans. The champion of LIDOM advances to play in the yearly Caribbean Series.
The Puerto Rico national baseball team is the national baseball team of Puerto Rico. The men's senior team is currently ranked 11th in the world, while its women's counterpart is 12th. Puerto Rico is the incumbent Pan American and Central American/Caribbean champion, as well as the World Baseball Classic runner-up.
The 20th edition of the Central American and Caribbean Games was held in the city of Cartagena, Colombia. The tournament began on July 15 and ended on July 30.
Estadio Isidoro García is a baseball stadium in Mayagüez, named after Isidoro "El Cholo" García, a local pitcher who threw the first ever no-hitter at a final series game in the Puerto Rico Baseball League. The stadium is located south of the city, at road PR-63, also named the Avenida Colby William Dunscombe. The site lies north of the Mayaguez Athletics Stadium and across the street from the Parque del Litoral.
The WBSC Americas, formerly known as Pan American Baseball Confederation, is the governing body of baseball and softball within the Americas.
Earl Rene Agnoly Thompson is a former professional baseball player who is most notable for being on Panama's roster in the 2006 World Baseball Classic and 2009 World Baseball Classic. He played professionally for six years in the Florida Marlins organization and in independent baseball and later became a member of the Panama national baseball team.
Iván Maldonado Oquendo is a Puerto Rican-American baseball pitcher who is free agent.
Baseball at the 2010 South American Games in Medellín, Colombia, was held from March 22 to March 27. All games were played at Estadio Atanasio Girardot.
Baseball was contested at the 1982 Central American and Caribbean Games in Havana, Cuba.
Baseball was contested at the 1986 Central American and Caribbean Games in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic.
Baseball was contested at the 1990 Central American and Caribbean Games in Mexico City, Mexico.
Baseball was contested at the 1993 Central American and Caribbean Games in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
Baseball was contested at the 1998 Central American and Caribbean Games in Maracaibo, Venezuela.
Baseball was contested at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games in Cartagena, Colombia.
The baseball competition at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games was held in Veracruz, Mexico.
Baseball competitions at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto was held from July 11 to 26 at the Pan Am Ball Park, in Ajax, Ontario.
Cuba competed in the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru from July 26 to August 11, 2019.
The baseball competition at the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games was held at the Edgar Rentería Baseball Stadium in Barranquilla, Colombia from 20 to 29 July 2018.
The 2019 Pan American Games Qualifier is a baseball tournament that was held between January 29 and February 3, 2019 in Ibiúna and São Paulo, Brazil. The tournament qualified the last four teams to the Baseball at the 2019 Pan American Games tournament in Lima, Peru.
The Central American Games were the first international tournament to feature baseball as a medal event, doing so in 1926 and 1930. The event then became the Central American and Caribbean Games, but another version of the Central American Games was established in 1973 with baseball returning in 1977.