Estrellas Orientales (English: Eastern Stars), also known as Estrellas de Oriente , is a baseball team in the Dominican Winter League . Based in San Pedro de Macorís , the team has historically struggled, winning championships only in 1936 , 1954 , 1968 and 2019.
7-535: 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 team won the championship for the second time in 1954 and again in 1968. In 2019, after 51 years, Estrellas Orientales won their fourth title after defeating Toros del Este in
14-634: A stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Tigres del Licey Tigres del Licey (English: Licey Tigers) is a professional baseball team in the Dominican Professional Baseball League (LIDOM). The team was founded in 1907 and is based in Santo Domingo , Dominican Republic . Tigres is the oldest team in LIDOM and has won 24 LIDOM titles and 11 Caribbean Series titles, the most out of any team. It
21-401: Is one of two LIDOM franchises based in the nation's capital, the other being Leones del Escogido ; the two teams share Estadio Quisqueya as their home ballpark . Some of the team's best players have included Alonzo Perry, Pedro González, Manuel Mota , Guayubín Olivo, César Gerónimo , and Elvio Jiménez. Many of the best Dominican players and Major League Baseball players have taken part in
28-530: The championship series. Infielders Outfielders The Estrellas Orientales franchise is considered the equivalent of the Chicago Cubs among Dominican Teams because of their championship drought which lasted from 1968 until 2019. This article about a baseball team is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about sports in the Dominican Republic is
35-461: The founding members of the original team were also part of the first roster. Over the next 16 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, composed of their best players, in order to beat Licey. This team, called " Leones del Escogido " ( Lions of the Chosen one ), still exists, and
42-1022: The long history of the Tigres, including Tommy Lasorda , a National Baseball Hall of Fame inductee who took the team to the 1973 Caribbean World Series title. The Licey team is nicknamed "El Glorioso" (the Glorious One), and has a passionate fan base. The Licey team was founded as the result of a meeting that took place in the house of Vicente María and Jacinto "Pichán" Vallejo, on el Conde Street, in Santo Domingo's Colonial Zone, on 7 November 1907. The club's founding members were Vicente María Vallejo, George "Geo" and Carlos "Cuncún" Pou, Luis and Federico E. Fiallo, Luis Castillo, Salvador Piñeyro, Álvaro Álvarez, Ricardo Arturo "Tutú" Martínez, Ángel and Chichí Mieses, Arturo "Tutulí" Perdomo, Manuel E. "Bi" Sánchez, Virgilio Abreu L., Alberto Peña, Arturo Nolasco and Tulio H. Piña and Virgilio "Niñito" Penson. Many of
49-407: The teams share the same stadium in Santo Domingo. During what Dominicans call the "first stage" of the country's baseball history, games were played only during daylight hours. 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
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