Baseball in Nicaragua

A batter of the Fieras del San Fernando, a Nicaraguan professional baseball team.
Baseball fans attending a Nicaraguan Professional Baseball League game.

Baseball is the national game of Nicaragua, and is one of the most popular sports in the country.[1] Nicaragua has a professional baseball league, the Nicaraguan Professional Baseball League, consisting of five 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.[1] 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.[2]

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  2. ^ "The Nation's Pride: Baseball" (PDF). University of Pittsburgh: University Center for International Studies. ucis.pitt.edu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-06-15. Retrieved February 13, 2010.