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| Dominican Winter Baseball League | |
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| Sport | Baseball |
| Founded | 1951 |
| No. of teams | 6 |
| Country(ies) |  Dominican Republic
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| Most recent champion(s) | Águilas Cibaeñas |
| Official website | lidom.com |
The Dominican Winter Baseball League (Spanish: Liga Dominicana de Béisbol Invernal) is a winter baseball league consisting of six baseball teams spread across the Dominican Republic. The league\'s players include many from Major League Baseball, and its champion plays each year in the Caribbean Series.
Each team plays a fifty-game schedule that begins the end of October and runs to the end of December. The top four teams engage in a 16 game round-robin play-off the first three weeks of January; the top two teams in those standings then play a best-of-nine series for the national title. The league\'s champion advances to the Caribbean Series to play against the champions of Mexico, Venezuela, and Puerto Rico.
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Baseball was first introduced to the Caribbean in 1866 on the island of Cuba. Taught to the Cubans by American sailors who were there to load sugar[citation needed]. Eight years later in 1874 the first organized game of baseball was played between Cuban teams. In the years to come it would be Cuba who would spread baseball throughout the Caribbean. When the ten year war (1868-1878) in Cuba brought turmoil to the country, many Cubans fled their country and migrated to the Dominican Republic bringing with them the game called "Baseball" or "Béisbol".
In the early 1900s, four Dominican teams formed. These teams still exist today, and form the foundation of Dominican professional baseball:
Two teams currently dominate the league: Tigres del Licey and Águilas Cibaeñas. These teams have won the last 13 titles and 15 of the last 16.
Titles by Team
| Team | Titles |
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| Mike Likes Tab | 20 |
| witas likes men(a lot) | 19 |
| chicago cubs | 12 |
| Estrellas Orientales | 2 |
| Azucareros del Este | 1 |
| Dominican Winter Baseball League |
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| 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) |
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