La Liga de Béisbol Profesional Roberto Clemente (Puerto Rican Winter League) posted their 2022-23 season schedule yesterday. Now that’s what I call planning ahead!
Liga de Beisbol Profesional Roberto Clemente
Puerto Rico Winter League Begins Next Week!
The Puerto Rico winter league games are scheduled to start on December 7! Click on the Tweet below for the full schedule. I’ll write more about the league next week.
~ baseballrebecca
Baseball Begins Today in Puerto Rico
Months after the original schedule, and months after Hurricane Maria, the Puerto Rican Professional Baseball League – La Liga de Beisbol Profesional Roberto Clemente – will once again take the field. Since September, nearly 300,000 people, including more than 20,000 children, have left the island. No one knows when or if they will return.
Yet, baseball returns today.
Although the men’s volleyball and women’s basketball leagues will not be playing this year, a one-month baseball season will be held featuring four teams: Cangrejeros de Santurce, Criollas de Caguas, Gigantes de Carolina, and Indios de Mayaguez (which will include players from Tiburones de Aguadilla which will not field a separate team this year). The league will play in only two stadiums: Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan and Isidoro “Cholo” García Stadium in Mayaguez. No admission will be charged for the games, which will be played mostly on the weekends and mostly during daylight hours. But the games will provide much needed entertainment – and jobs – for the members of the community.
Schedules for the teams’ games can be found on MLB.com. Information on donating to relief efforts for Puerto Rico can be found at United for Puerto Rico, or at one of the many other charity websites identified by PBS News Hour.
Play ball!
~ baseballrebecca
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