Tigres del Licey

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Tigres del Licey

League

Dominican Winter League

Location

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Ballpark

Estadio Quisqueya

Year Founded

1907

League championships

1951, 1953, 1959, 1964, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1991, 1994, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2006

Caribbean World Series championships

1971, 1973, 1977, 1980, 1985, 1991, 1994, 1999, 2004

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Tigres del Licey is a professional baseball team founded in 1907 based in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. It is one of the two franchises of the Capital city of the country, the oldest and most winning team in Dominican league, having won 19 Dominican titles and 9 Caribbean World Series as of October, 2006. The best players ever were Pedro González (number 2), Alonso Perry (5), Manuel Mota (7), Guayubín Olivo (9), César Gerónimo (80), Elvio Jiménez (11). Many of the best Dominican baseballers and Major League Baseball players have taken part in the long history of the Tigres, including Tom Lasorda, baseball hall-of-famer who took the team to the 1973 Caribbean World Series title. The Licey logo is a cursive “L”.

1 History
2 Modern situation
3 Players
4 See also
5 External links
6 Notes and references
- 6.1 Cited references

[edit] History

Circa 1900, baseball in Dominican Republic was only a minor pastime, due to the heavy political turmoil surrounding the country back then. But by 1907, baseball was increasing in popularity with two amateur teams ("Ozama" and "Nuevo Club") being the most popular. Licey was the first attempt to team up as an antagonist for these two teams.

The Licey team was founded as the result of a meeting that took place in the house of Vicente María Vallejo, in the Conde street, in Santo Domingo's Colonial Zone, on November 7, 1907. Founder members were: George and Cuncún Pou, Luis and Federico Fiallo, Luis and Pinchán Valejo, Luis Castillo, Salvador Piñeyro, Alvaro Alvarez, Tutú Martínez, Angel and Chichí Mieses, Arturo Perdomo, Bi Sanchez, Virgilio Abreu, Alberto Peña, Arturo Nolasco and Tulio Piña. Many of the founding members of the original team were also part of the first roster^[1].

Over the next 15 years Licey became so dominant that an agreement was made among the three other competing teams (Los Muchachos, San Carlos and Delco Lite) to form a new team, comprised of their best players, in order to beat Licey. That team, the Leones del Escogido, became everything Licey is not. They were the Lions to Licey’s tiger. Their colors would be red, to oppose the Licey blue. They would even play in Santo Domingo.

During what Dominicans call the “first stage” of the country’s baseball history, the game was only played during the day. The game’s “second stage” didn’t begin until dictator Rafael Trujillo built the capital’s Estadio Quisqueya in 1955, a brilliantly designed and built stadium for the time. With the stadium came lights and what is considered the Dominican’s golden age.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Modern situation

The team, nicknamed "El Glorioso", has a passionate fan base. Their main rivals are the Águilas Cibaeñas of Santiago, and in 2006, a huge faceoff between the two occurred when they met each other in the league playoffs. Each team had won an equal number of league titles, and whoever won this season would have the most titles. Licey won this battle with las Águilas, but they lost in the Caribbean Series. El Glorioso had then won 19 Dominican championships. In 2007, El Glorioso lost the championship series to las Águilas, wich tied both teams at 19 championships.

[edit] Players

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

[edit] Notes and references

[edit] Cited references

^ Foundation of the Tigres Del Licey (Spanish): http://www.licey.com/fundacion.asp

Dominican Winter Baseball League
Águilas Cibaeñas (Santiago) \| Azucareros del Este (La Romana) Estrellas Orientales (San Pedro de Macorís) \| Gigantes del Cibao (Santo Domingo) Leones del Escogido (Santo Domingo) \| Tigres del Licey (Santo Domingo)